I haven't been paid? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
Until the final date for payment your subcontract sets, or, in England and Wales, 17 days after the due date if it sets none.
It covers most UK subcontracts for construction work, but some contracts are left out, so check yours before you rely on it.
If the Construction Act covers your subcontract, it gives you a payment timetable, proper notices, the notified sum, and rights to suspend work and adjudicate.
Usually not: the Construction Act makes pay-when-paid clauses ineffective, but there is an exception for insolvency further up the chain.
Nothing yet: they are only proposals, and the 60-day cap on payment terms is not expected before 2027.
On an unamended JCT contract the due date is 7 days after the valuation date, and the final date for payment is 14 days after that.
On an unamended NEC4 ECC with Option Y(UK)2, payment is due 7 days after each assessment date, and the final date for payment is 14 days later.
Under clause 51 each payment is certified within 1 week of the assessment date and paid within 3 weeks of that date, with interest if late.
Option Y(UK)2 makes payment due 7 days after each assessment date, with the final date for payment 14 days later unless the Contract Data differs.
Check what was actually due and that its final date has passed, then demand it in writing with interest, and escalate only if that fails.
No, it is a breach of contract rather than a crime, but the law gives you fast remedies that do not need a court.
Usually yes: your subcontract may set its own interest, and if it does not, the law gives you statutory interest.
It is the 1998 law that lets a business charge interest, a fixed sum and recovery costs when another business pays it late.
Yes, where statutory interest runs: the law adds a fixed sum of £40, £70 or £100 for each late payment, plus reasonable recovery costs.
Yes, if the notified sum is unpaid after its final date for payment and you give written notice first, but take advice before you stop.
Clause 4.13 lets the Contractor suspend work if the sum due is unpaid by the final date, after written notice, and recover its reasonable costs.
No, either party to a construction contract can refer a dispute to adjudication at any time, and the other side cannot opt out.
You pay two costs: the adjudicator's fees, which the decision shares out, and your own costs of preparing your case, which you normally cannot recover.
The losing side pays within the time the decision sets, and if it does not, the winner can enforce the decision in court.
Yes: send it with the rest, and we tell you which terms to push back on while you can still negotiate them.
Not unless you choose it: the demand and negotiation come first, and we set out what suspension or adjudication would cost and risk.