When must enforcement notice allow twenty-eight clear days?

Regulation 6(1A) requires the notice minimum to extend to twenty-eight clear days when a qualifying provider requests it before the stated notice period expires, subject to paragraph (1B).

Responsible actor. The enforcement agent applying the eligible debt-advice notice extension.

Actual proposed control date, with an established timely qualifying request.

The request is an eligibility condition, not a new date from which twenty-eight days automatically run. Preserve the original notice period, actual provider request and debt classification.

The request is an eligibility condition, not a new date from which twenty-eight days automatically run. Preserve the original notice period, actual provider request and debt classification.

1. Exclude notice and control dates, and omit intervening Sundays, bank holidays, Good Friday and Christmas Day. Twenty-eight countable intervening dates must remain.
2. Ordinary Saturdays count. An eligible notice for control on November 30, 2026 cannot be reduced to twenty-eight unadjusted calendar dates. Actual permitted notice giving remains necessary.

Exclude notice and control dates, and omit intervening Sundays, bank holidays, Good Friday and Christmas Day. Twenty-eight countable intervening dates must remain.

Ordinary Saturdays count. An eligible notice for control on November 30, 2026 cannot be reduced to twenty-eight unadjusted calendar dates. Actual permitted notice giving remains necessary.

Fictitious example

The enforcement agent applying the eligible debt-advice notice extension. For the established proposed event Monday, November 30, 2026, the latest notice day is Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Count exactly 28 intervening eligible dates. Sundays and bank holidays are excluded; ordinary Saturdays count. Additional fictitious established facts. Qualifying provider request actually received. 2026-10-21T10:00:00Z. Original notice stated expiry. 2026-10-22T17:00:00Z. Established notice method. personal. Fictitious individually specified facts. The listed context makes the actual branch, actors, event history and completion facts explicit. Additional dates below are stated hypothetical facts rather than inferred client records.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Identified actor and operative event

The request is an eligibility condition, not a new date from which twenty-eight days automatically run. Preserve the original notice period, actual provider request and debt classification.

Provision-specific counting and closure

Exclude notice and control dates, and omit intervening Sundays, bank holidays, Good Friday and Christmas Day. Twenty-eight countable intervening dates must remain. Ordinary Saturdays count. An eligible notice for control on November 30, 2026 cannot be reduced to twenty-eight unadjusted calendar dates. Actual permitted notice giving remains necessary.

Required completion and separate procedural route

Paragraph (1B) excludes noneligible business debt. The definitions are incorporated through regulation 2. An unknown provider qualification, request timeliness or debt classification must not silently select the extended branch.

• The request is an eligibility condition, not a new date from which twenty-eight days automatically run. Preserve the original notice period, actual provider request and debt classification.
• The ordinary fourteen-day branch and eligible twenty-eight-day branch share the regulation 6(2) calendar. Neither treats the provider request date as the planned control date.

• Qualifying debt-advice provider
• Request actually submitted before stated notice expiry
• Debt is not noneligible business debt
• Actual proposed control date
• No actual shorter-period order
• Paragraph (1B) excludes noneligible business debt. The definitions are incorporated through regulation 2. An unknown provider qualification, request timeliness or debt classification must not silently select the extended branch.