Contract start date significance

[shoes]

Does the date on which my Ltd 'commences the provision of services' on hold any real significance?

What happens if My Ltd provides me as the consultant a day or two after this start date? Has my Ltd broken the contract making it void, or somesuch?

The reason I ask is that I have recieved a contract counter-signed, that used to have a start date that is a Monday. As well as signing the contract the agency representative has also crossed out that monday start date and changed it to the previous day. I don't think end client are open on Sunday!

Is this a cunning plan of some sort on the part of the agency?

[SandyDown]

Does the date on which my Ltd 'commences the provision of services' on hold any real significance?

What happens if My Ltd provides me as the consultant a day or two after this start date? Has my Ltd broken the contract making it void, or somesuch?

The reason I ask is that I have recieved a contract counter-signed, that used to have a start date that is a Monday. As well as signing the contract the agency representative has also crossed out that monday start date and changed it to the previous day. I don't think end client are open on Sunday!

Is this a cunning plan of some sort on the part of the agency?

I think its just a date error, the guy probably got hsi dates wrong, just communicate and tell him he got the date wrong, so you are waiting for the contract with the right date.

[shoes]

I don't mind that the date is a day before I can actually turn up, since the agreement still covers the period over which I will be attending the client site.

I do wonder if there is a consequence of technically not turning up on the first day. The client will be expecting me on the monday so there will be no issue from their perspective.

I wonder why they did it? It is a deliberate initialled change to the start date on the contract that a quick glance at a calendar could have confirmed was unnecessary, they do seem to have a purpose in mind.