{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982/section-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/29",
  "legislation_title": "Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-goods-and-services-act-1982",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Implied term about time for performance.",
  "text": "(1) Where, under a relevant contract for the supply of a service by a supplier acting in the course of a business, the time for the service to be carried out is not fixed by the contract, left to be fixed in a manner agreed by the contract or determined by the course of dealing between the parties, there is an implied term that the supplier will carry out the service within a reasonable time.\n(2) What is a reasonable time is a question of fact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 1 para. 38(c); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(g) (with art. 6(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/29/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:07.828601+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."
}