I've been underpaid? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
A Payment Notice is the notice your main contractor sends after your application, saying what it thinks is due and how it worked that out.
Whoever your subcontract says: usually your main contractor or a person it names, and under some subcontracts, you.
A Payment Notice must state the sum your main contractor considers due at the payment due date and how that sum was worked out.
Possibly, but it cannot backdate it, so keep every version and check whether the deadline was still open when the new one arrived.
A negative figure in a Payment Notice and a right to demand money back from you are two different questions.
It is the notice you can send when your main contractor misses its Payment Notice, and yes, sending it late moves the final date for payment back.
It is the amount in the notice that counts for the cycle: your main contractor's Payment Notice, or your application or default notice if none was given.
A Pay Less Notice is the notice your main contractor must send if it plans to pay you less than the notified sum.
A Payment Notice sets the sum due for the cycle; a Pay Less Notice says your main contractor plans to pay less than that sum.
Your main contractor, as the payer, or a person your subcontract names to send it.
It must come from the right person on time, state the sum due and how it was worked out, and be served as your subcontract says.
It can be any written notice, whatever its heading, that states the sum your main contractor thinks is due and how it got there, sent in time.
Whenever your main contractor plans to pay you less than the notified sum; how late it can send one is a separate question.
By the deadline in your subcontract, counted back from the final date for payment; the Scheme's 7 days applies only if your subcontract sets none.
A replacement only counts if it was allowed and arrived before the deadline, so keep the original and check the dates.
It can be, but it depends on your subcontract's notices clause, and the email must still say what a Pay Less Notice must say.
Possibly, but a line saying 'treat this as a Pay Less Notice too' does not make one document work as both.
Keep the notice and the proof of when it arrived, then challenge the notice itself and its deductions as two separate questions.
Not from the notified sum: a deduction already inside a valid Payment Notice needs no Pay Less Notice, but taking money off the notified sum does.
It must follow your subcontract: sent on the right date, to the right recipient, in the required form, stating the sum and how you worked it out.
No: your application claims the sum you say is due and the notices answer it, while an invoice usually bills a sum already agreed.
You can send more evidence and ask for a review, but that does not replace your application or restart the notice deadlines.
It is an adjudication that claims the notified sum because your main contractor's notices were missing, late or invalid, without deciding what the work is really worth.
It is an adjudication that decides what your work is actually worth, for the period or items referred, rather than what the notices fixed.
Usually 28 days from the referral to the decision, or up to 42 if the referring party agrees, so about 5 to 8 weeks in all.
Binding yes, final no: it must be complied with and the courts enforce it, but the dispute can be reopened in court or arbitration later.
The Project Manager assesses the amount due at each assessment date, and if the Contractor has not applied, it cannot exceed the last amount due.
Under Option A it is the Prices of completed activities; under Option B it is measured quantities at bill rates, plus the completed share of lump sums.
Under JCT the Interim Certificate is the Payment Notice, and a Pay Less Notice in time is the only way to pay less than the notified sum.
It is work properly executed, materials on site and listed off-site items, plus the other amounts the contract adds, less retention and what was certified before.
Only where the same gaps would let it happen again.
Your signed subcontracts, a recent application and what came back, an honest account of your routine, your templates and a list of who does what.
Yes: where a deadline falls this week and you instruct us by early afternoon, the notice check starts that day.
Yes: we rebuild each past cycle from the documents, find where a valid application went unanswered by any valid notice, and put a limitation date on each.