When does the payment period in a qualifying charge expire?

A qualifying charge specifies14 days for a debtor within the United Kingdom and28 days outside it or with unknown whereabouts. This workflow requires the charge’s actual execution date and wording. It shows payment-period expiry and does not decide whether diligence is competent. Expiry of the payment period in the qualifying charge. This does not establish that diligence is competent or may lawfully be executed on that date.

Responsible actor. Debtor and creditor concerned with the qualifying charge.

Identify actual date of execution of the valid charge for payment.

This is a charge under section90 in a case where diligence requires a charge. I checked the valid warrant and prescribed form.

Only the exact supported ordinary branch is calculated. Standing, competence, changed periods, required forms, copies and actual completion must be established.

1. Exclude the actual event day. Count the exact calendar-day period for the confirmed branch.
2. Check the required document, destination, copies and actual cutoff.

Exclude the actual event day. Count the exact calendar-day period for the confirmed branch.

Calendar days include weekends and holidays. No automatic court-holiday extension is inferred for this Act period. Check actual completion and act earlier where necessary.

Fictitious example

Fictional facts. actual date of execution of the valid charge for payment is established as Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Selected branch. Debtor within the United Kingdom. The charge specifies14 days branch applies. All ordinary source conditions and the actual completion route are established.

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

Source condition 1

This is a charge under section90 in a case where diligence requires a charge. I checked the valid warrant and prescribed form.

Source condition 2

I established the actual execution date and the debtor’s location or unknown-whereabouts branch. The valid charge expressly specifies14 or28 calendar days after its execution date. Posting, later receipt or another date is not automatically substituted.

Source condition 3

The result shows payment-period expiry only. Payment, a time-to-pay direction, another restriction, competence and lawful execution remain separate.

Source condition 4

No first lawful diligence date or entitlement to execute is inferred. The two-year limit and reconstitution provisions are separate.

Source condition 5

The ordinary current statutory period applies. No order, extension, postponement, suspension, historical transition or discretionary late permission changes it. Actual timely receipt, copies and the applicable cutoff remain required.

• Only the exact supported ordinary branch is calculated. Standing, competence, changed periods, required forms, copies and actual completion must be established.
• Other procedures have different actors, events, periods and completion requirements. The selected branch does not replace those duties.

• This is a charge under section90 in a case where diligence requires a charge. I checked the valid warrant and prescribed form.
• I established the actual execution date and the debtor’s location or unknown-whereabouts branch. The valid charge expressly specifies14 or28 calendar days after its execution date. Posting, later receipt or another date is not automatically substituted.
• The result shows payment-period expiry only. Payment, a time-to-pay direction, another restriction, competence and lawful execution remain separate.
• No first lawful diligence date or entitlement to execute is inferred. The two-year limit and reconstitution provisions are separate.
• The ordinary current statutory period applies. No order, extension, postponement, suspension, historical transition or discretionary late permission changes it. Actual timely receipt, copies and the applicable cutoff remain required.
• Expiry of the payment period in the qualifying charge. This does not establish that diligence is competent or may lawfully be executed on that date. Only the exact supported ordinary branch is calculated. Standing, competence, changed periods, required forms, copies and actual completion must be established.