Part 4: Management of public contracts Notices about payments and performance Section 69: Payments compliance notices
Subsection (1) obliges a contracting authority to prepare and publish a payments compliance notice within 30 days of the last day of a reporting period, where it has either made a payment under a public contract or a sum owed by it under the contract becomes payable.
	Subsections (2) and (5) define a "payments compliance notice" as a notice setting out information (to be specified in regulations to be made under section 95) about the authority’s compliance with the obligation to make payments under public contracts within 30 days of such payments falling due (see section 68(2) (implied payment terms in public contracts)). It must also include any other information specified in regulations under section 95 (notices, documents and information: regulations and online system).
	Subsection (3) states the reporting periods as being, initially, the period beginning with the coming into force of this section and ending with whichever is earlier of the following 31 March or 30 September, and subsequently each 6 month period ending with 31 March and 30 September.
	Subsection (4) provides a power for a Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers to make regulations relating to the preparation and approval of a payments compliance notice.
	Subsection (6) disapplies the obligations in this section in relation to a transferred Northern Ireland authority, contracts awarded by schools, private utilities, or when it pertains to a concession contract.