{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-on-payment-practices-and-performance-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-on-payment-practices-and-performance-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-on-payment-practices-and-performance-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;\n“construction contract”—\n(a)means a construction contract within the meaning of sections 104(1) to (3) and 105(1) to (2) of the 1996 Act; and\n(b)excludes any construction contract with a residential occupier within the meaning of section 106(2) of the 1996 Act;\n“director” includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called;\n“filing period” means 30 days beginning with the day after the last day of the reporting period to which a report relates;\n“financial year” means a company’s financial year determined in accordance with sections 390 to 392 of the 2006 Act;\n“qualifying company” has the meaning given in regulation 5;\n“qualifying construction contract” has the meaning given in regulation 6A;\n“qualifying contract” has the meaning given in regulation 6;\n“reporting period” means a period determined in accordance with regulation 7.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (in relation to each financial year of a company beginning on or after 1.4.2025) by The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/75), regs. 1(2)(4), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (in relation to each financial year of a company beginning on or after 1.4.2025) by The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/75), regs. 1(2)(4), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (in relation to each financial year of a company beginning on or after 1.4.2025) by The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/75), regs. 1(2)(4), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 modified (E.W.S.) (6.4.2017) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/425), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/395/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:48.714001+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."
}