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Default Payment Notice

The notice that fixes the sum when the payer stays silent.

The payee's notice under section 110B: where the payer should have served a Payment Notice and did not, this states the sum you consider due and it becomes the notified sum for the cycle. The dates run themselves, including the revised final date for payment, which moves back by exactly the days you waited to serve.

What you get

Preview of the Default Payment Notice template
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Preview of the Default Payment Notice filled in for an example cycle
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How it works

When it applies

The Act expects the payer to state the sum first. Where the deadline passes in silence and the contract does not already make your application the default notice, section 110B lets you state the sum instead: what you considered due at the due date, with the basis of calculation set out rather than a bare figure.

The dates run themselves

Enter the due date, the payer's notice deadline and the date you serve. The sheet counts the days late and gives the revised final date for payment under s.110B(3), postponed by the days between the missed deadline and service.

The pre-serve checklist

A screen-only checklist that never prints sits alongside: the deadline has genuinely passed, nothing served counts as a valid payment notice, your own application was valid and in time, service follows the contract's method with proof kept, and the two dates to diarise afterwards.

An Excel template with no macros. Only the yellow cells can be edited, the Guide tab explains every step, and it prints on A4. Your contract's terms override the statutory defaults.

Related paid help

Need a notice like this checked and served under time pressure? That is the Emergency Notice Desk.