StatutoryFree to readas amended
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
pre-contract information for off-premises and distance contractsthe fourteen day cancellation rightextension of the cancellation period where information is not givenexpress request to begin services in the cancellation periodconsequences of cancellation for part-performed servicescriminal offence for off-premises information failures
StatutoryFree to readas amended
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
implied terms in consumer service contractsbinding effect of pre-contract statementsreasonable price and reasonable time where not fixedremedies of repeat performance and price reductionban on excluding liability for service standardsunfair terms
StatutoryFree to read
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
payment machinery and noticesadjudicationsuspension for non-paymentstage payment entitlementpay-when-paid prohibition
StatutoryFree to readin force from 1 October 2011 in England and Wales
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
the 2011 amendments to the construction payment regimeintroduction of the notified sum and pay less noticeremoval of the requirement for contracts to be in writing
Not needed for day to day operation but essential context: it explains why contracts and precedents drafted before October 2011 use different notice names and different mechanics.
StatutoryFree to read
UK Parliament / Cabinet Office
public contract payment termsimplied 30-day terms in public sub-contractspayments compliance noticesprocurement procedures for public works
Any publicly funded UK job carries these terms whether or not they are written into the subcontract, which changes what an agent should flag when reviewing subcontract payment terms.
StatutoryFree to readas amended by SI 2011/2333
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
default payment due datesdefault final date for paymentdefault payment notice and pay less notice periodsdefault adjudication procedure
Supplies the payment terms on every subcontract agreed by purchase order or email with no payment clauses, which describes most work a small contractor takes. Without it the payment application template has no dates to compute.
StatutoryFree to read
UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)
default payment periodsdefault adjudication procedureimplied terms where a contract is non-compliant
De facto standardFree to readcurrent online edition
Guidance on the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013
Chartered Trading Standards Institute and the Department for Business and Trade
practical interpretation of the consumer contracts regulationsenforcement approach of trading standardsmodel cancellation form and notice wording
Not law, but it is how trading standards will read the situation and it carries the model cancellation form the domestic template needs to reproduce. Free to use and safe to rely on for practical scope questions.
De facto standardPaywalled
JCT / NEC (Thomas Telford)
standard contract formscompensation eventsearly warningpayment notices