Service Charge Bill with two weeks due date

From_Cordoba

Hi, I just received a service charge bill from my Mangament Company with a due date of 14 days.  As I understand the law I have 30 days from the date of receiving a bill to became due. Can I ignore its due date and pay within 30 days?

comeandgo

Which law gives you 30 days to pay a bill? 

Lunchbox

Which law are you referring to? The time period for payment of service charge demands will be set out in your lease; I’m not aware of any law that overrides this. Ours is also 14 days.

theartfullodger

When I pay for parking, tickets to events, etc etc etc it's demanded immediately: Are you saying I'd be within my rights to demand 30 days to pay? If so, £5 to an agreed charity if you could kindly let us all now which law & section gives us these rights,

london21

Call your service charge company.
If you have the money, pay it off, if not contact them to see if you can pay in 30 days without any fees. 

From_Cordoba

My lease does not mention any time period

This is what I refering to: 
"If you do not agree a payment date, the law says the payment is late 30 days after either:

• the customer gets the invoice
• you deliver the goods or provide the service (if this is later)"

theartfullodger

Which law and section of that law is that then, please?

Kindly also please supply link to or source of the text you are quoting.

From_Cordoba

https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-recovery

emmajones1976

From_Cordoba said:

https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-recovery

Are you a business?

980233

emmajones1976 said:

From_Cordoba said:

https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-recovery

Are you a business?

🤣........

eddddy

You might be thinking of Ground rent demands and payments.

With Ground Rent, the date the payment is due must not be less than 30 days or more than 60 days after the date the demand notice is served (but not before the lease says it has to be paid).


Alternatively, it's possible that your lease says that you have to be given 30 days notice of service charges being payable - but TBH, leases don't often say that.