Part 4: Management of public contracts Notices about payments and performance Section 70: Information about payments under public contracts
Subsection (1) requires a contracting authority to publish specified information (see subsection (5)) whenever it makes a payment of £30,000 or more under a public contract.
	Subsection (2) requires such information to be published within 30 days of the end of the quarter in which the payment was made.
	Subsection (3) creates a power for a Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers to make regulations changing the financial threshold, or the time limit for publication.
	Subsection (4) provides an exemption from the provision of this section for utilities contracts awarded by a private utility, concessions contracts, and public contracts awarded by a school, as defined in section 123. The section also does not apply to public contracts awarded by a transferred Northern Ireland authority, unless they are awarded under a reserved procurement arrangement or devolved Welsh procurement arrangement, or public contracts awarded under a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement.
	Subsection (5) defines "quarter" and provides that regulations made under section 95 may set out what "specified information" must be published under this section.