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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT 2006 - SECT 14

Limitation on applications for review of services contracts--other proceedings in progress

             (1)  An application to review a services contract must not be made under subsection 12(1) if other review proceedings have been commenced in relation to the services contract, unless the other review proceedings:

                     (a)  have been discontinued by the person who commenced them; or

                     (b)  have failed for want of jurisdiction.

             (2)  A person must not commence other review proceedings in relation to a services contract if an application to review the contract has been made under subsection 12(1), unless:

                     (a)  the application has been discontinued by the person who made it; or

                     (b)  the proceedings in relation to the application have failed for want of jurisdiction.

             (3)  In this section:

"other review proceedings" means proceedings in relation to a services contract:

                     (a)  under a provision of a law of a State or Territory that makes provision as mentioned in paragraph 7(1)(c) and is not affected by the exclusion provisions; or

                     (b)  under a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, that is specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.

Note:          Paragraph 7(1)(c) relates to laws that provide for contracts to be void etc. on an unfairness ground.



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