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Interim Certificate
SBC/Q, AQ or XQ/Scot
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Interim Certificate
SBC/Q, AQ or XQ/Scot

Name and address of issuer i Name and address of employer ii

Form of Contract v

Contract dated vi

Job reference

Name and address of contractor iii Works iv situated at Certificate number

Due Date vii Date of issue viii

Final date for payment ix

This Interim Certificate is issued under the terms of the above-mentioned Contract

Gross Valuation x £
Less Retention NOT covered by Retention Bond, if any, as detailed on the
xi
£
Statement of Retention
Sub-total: £
Less reimbursement of advance payment £
Sub-total: £
Less total amount previously certified £
and Less any sums paid in respect of any Interim Payment Notice given
after the issue of the last Interim Certificate xii £

Net amount for payment £

All amounts are
exclusive of VAT

I/We hereby certify that the sum due to the Contractor from the Employer at the due date is (in words)
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Such due sum being calculated on the basis of the figures set out above pursuant to clause 4.9.2 of the
Contract Conditions xiii

Signed
To be signed by or for the issuer named above.

This is not a Tax Invoice

Distribution Employer Contractor Quantity Surveyor File

This form, with the appropriate deletions, is only appropriate for the following SBCC Contracts:
SBC/Q or AQ or XQ/Scot; or SBC/DB/Scot.
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Notes

i Needs to be person authorised under Contract to issue Certificate

ii Person named as such in Contract

iii Person named as such in Contract

iv As described in Contract

v Insert form of Contract. Where it is an SBCC Contract, this form is only

appropriate for SBC/Q or AQ or XQ/Scot (SBC/DB/Scot, RM/Scot and CE/Scot
do not have a Certifier and MW/Scot and MWD/Scot have a different procedure
and the interim certificates which can be issued under MTC/Scot are for progress
payments and not expressly for the value of work properly carried out. FA/Scot
does not provide for payment).

vi This is the date, or are the dates, of execution of the Contract (or, if no separate
contract was entered into, the dates of the documents making up the offer and its
unqualified acceptance constituting the contract)

vii Under SBC/Q or AQ or XQ/Scot the due date for interim payments is as set out
under clause 4.9.1

viii See endnote 7 above. This date is important as under this form of contract, if this
certificate is issued later than 5 days after the relevant due date (as defined in
clause 4.9.1), the Contractor is entitled to give an Interim Payment Notice (or his
pre-existing Interim Application, if made, becomes an Interim Payment Notice)
and the sum stated as due in that Interim Payment Notice becomes the sum
due (subject to the Employer, or his agent acting on his behalf (Architect, QS or
Employer’s Representative), issuing a Pay Less Notice under clause 4.13)

ix This will normally be defined in Contract. It is safest to enter “As per Contract”
or quote the relevant provision within the Contract. However if date is entered
make sure it is the correct date (Contract will normally take precedence over
contract administration document). For SBC/Q or AQ or XQ/Scot the entry
should be “14 days from the due date”. As long as the Interim Certificate is issued
validly and timeously that will be the case. However clause 4.12.4 provides that
where, as noted in endnote 8 above, the Contractor has given an Interim Payment
Notice, because no Interim Certificate has been issued timeously, then the final
date for payment is postponed by the same number of days as the number of days
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after the expiry of the 5 day period referred to in clause 4.10.1 that the Interim
Payment Notice is given

x The Gross valuation should, amongst other things, reflect the value of the Works
and Materials properly on site not more than 7 days before the due date (see
clause 4.16 for details)

xi See Statement of Retention normally prepared by QS. This should be checked

before deducting any retention as per Statement and issuing Certificate

xii See endnotes 8 & 9 above regarding Interim Payment Notices

xiii Clause 4.10.1 states that the certificate must state the sum due and the basis
upon which that sum has been calculated. This Certificate has been drafted for
use with interim payments calculated in accordance with clause 4.9.2 of the
Contract Conditions, if stage payments are to be used then another form of
interim payment certificate should be used.