PART 4Management of public contracts
Notices about payments and performance
I269Payments compliance notices
1
Before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the last day of a reporting period, a contracting authority must publish a payments compliance notice if during that period—
a
the authority made a payment under a public contract;
b
a sum owed by the authority under a public contract became payable.
2
A “payments compliance notice” means a notice setting out—
a
specified information about the contracting authority’s compliance with the term set out in section 68(2) (payment within 30 days), and
b
any other specified information.
3
For the purposes of this section, a reporting period is—
a
the period beginning with the day on which this section comes into force and ending with the 31 March or 30 September following that day, whichever is earlier, and
b
each successive period of six months.
I14
A Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision about the preparation of a payments compliance notice, including provision requiring that the notice must be approved by a person of a description specified in the regulations.
5
In subsection (2), “specified information” means information specified in regulations under section 95.
6
This section does not apply—
a
to a transferred Northern Ireland authority,
b
to private utilities,
c
in relation to a public contract awarded by a school, or
d
in relation to a concession contract.