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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/916",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2001",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of any contract, any claim for payment for work carried out under the provisions of the 1988 Act shall be submitted so as to be received by the Commission no later than five months after the completion of the work for which payment is claimed.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the Commission may refuse any claim for payment mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) which is received late without good reason.\n(3) No claim for payment shall be refused unless the solicitor has been given a reasonable opportunity to show why it should not be refused.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}