Prompt Payment of Accounts Act, 1997

Return of invoice for correction.

5.—(1) If, within 10 working days after receiving an invoice for goods or services supplied, a purchaser returns the invoice to the supplier because it is not adequate or sufficiently accurate on which to make payment, and at the same time gives to the supplier a written statement identifying the defects that prevent the payment being made, interest penalty in relation to the goods or services shall not accrue until the expiration of 10 working days after the receipt by the purchaser of a proper corrected or replacement invoice, or until the prescribed payment date, whichever is the later.

(2) If a purchaser returns an invoice to a supplier in circumstances referred to in subsection (1) but later than 10 working days after receiving it, interest penalty in relation to the goods or services shall not accrue until the expiration of 10 working days after the receipt by the purchaser of a proper corrected or replacement invoice reduced by a number of working days equal to the number of working days the purchaser was late in returning the invoice, or until the prescribed payment date, whichever is the later.

(3) In this section “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.