{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-regulations-2013/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-regulations-2013/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Contracts, England And Wales\nContracts, Northern Ireland\nMade 21st February 2013\nLaid before Parliament 22nd February 2013\nComing into force 16th March 2013\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to matters relating to the combating of late payment in commercial transactions, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), Schedule 1, Part 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, the European Communities (Designation) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/248)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/395/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:24.599119+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."
}