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Gemme05

HI, just a quick question can british gas charge for a late payment on their bills?

Cardew

From BG's terms and conditions.

2.3 We may also charge you for our reasonable costs that are not set out in our price list. These may include the following.

Our costs of visiting your property, stopping, disconnecting or reconnecting your supply if you ask us to, or if the reason for doing this was your fault for example, when there is no problem with your meter and you ask us to move it, or if we have to come to your property because you have damaged the meter.
Our costs of inspecting, reading or working on your meter when you ask us to but there is no problem with your meter, for example, if you ask us to read your meter when we do not have to.
Our costs in trying to get back money you owe us (including our reasonable administration costs and costs that we pay at different stages to ask you to pay us the money you owe, for example, trying to contact you to get back the money you owe, if we need to visit your property, get a warrant allowing us to enter your property or install a prepayment meter). There are more details of the charges in our leaflet 'Lots of Ways to Pay' and on our website at https://www.britishgas.co.uk/pdf/waytopay.pdf.

3.6 If you do not pay your bill for gas or electricity (or both) when we remind you, we can start charging you interest at 3% a year above HSBC Bank's current base rate. We can do this from 28 days after we sent the original bill to you.