{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-no2-regulations-2013/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/908",
  "legislation_title": "The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (No.2) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-no2-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (No.2) Regulations 2013 and shall come into force on 14th May 2013.\n(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Northern Ireland.\n(3) These Regulations do not affect contracts made before the day on which these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 are, so far as exercisable in or as regards Scotland, devolved to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/908/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:31.266300+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}