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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-interest-act-1998-commencement-no-4-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-interest-act-1998-commencement-no-4-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2740",
  "legislation_title": "The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-interest-act-1998-commencement-no-4-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n(a) “small business supplier” means a supplier, not being a United Kingdom public authority, whose business is a small business;\n(b) “small business purchaser” means a purchaser, not being a United Kingdom public authority, whose business is a small business;\n(c) “United Kingdom public authority” means an authority falling within Schedule 1 to the first commencement order, the Schedule to the second commencement order or the Schedule to the third commencement order;\n(d) “the first commencement order” means the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1998;\n(e) “the second commencement order” means the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1999;\n(f) “the third commencement order” means the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2000.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, a business is a small business if the number of full-time employees employed in the business is 50 or fewer when calculated in accordance with Schedule 2 to the first commencement order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2479."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1816."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2225."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2740/article/2",
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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."
}