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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scheme-for-construction-contracts-england-and-wales-regulations-1998/schedule/part-II/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scheme-for-construction-contracts-england-and-wales-regulations-1998/schedule/part-II/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/649",
  "legislation_title": "The Scheme for Construction Contracts (England and Wales) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scheme-for-construction-contracts-england-and-wales-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/part/II/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Final date for payment",
  "text": "(1) Where the parties to a construction contract fail to provide a final date for payment in relation to any sum which becomes due under a construction contract, the provisions of this paragraph shall apply.\n(2) The final date for the making of any payment of a kind mentioned in paragraphs 2, 5, 6 or 7, shall be 17 days from the date that payment becomes due.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. Pt. II para. 8 in force at 1.5.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/649/schedule/part/II/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:10.650075+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."
}