{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-on-payment-practices-and-performance-regulations-2017/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-on-payment-practices-and-performance-regulations-2017/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Contracts to which the information relates",
  "text": "(1) A qualifying contract is a relevant contract which satisfies the conditions in paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) The first condition is that the relevant contract is not a contract for financial services, as defined in section 2 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.\n(3) The second condition is that the relevant contract is—\n(a) governed by the law of a part of the United Kingdom otherwise than by choice of the parties;\n(b) governed by the law of a part of the United Kingdom by choice of the parties, and—\n(i) has a significant connection with that part of the United Kingdom, or\n(ii) without that choice, its applicable law would still be the law of a part of the United Kingdom; or\n(c) governed by a foreign law by choice of the parties and—\n(i) without that choice, its applicable law would be the law of a part of the United Kingdom, and\n(ii) has no significant connection with any country outside the United Kingdom.\n(4) In this regulation “foreign law” means the law of a country outside the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 6.4.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/395/regulation/6",
    "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."
}