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CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (FORMER PROVISIONS) ACT 2004


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Terms used
            
   4.      Construction work
            
   5.      Goods and services related to construction work
            
   6.      Payment dispute
            
   7.      Construction contracts to which this Act applies
            
   8.      Application to Crown

   PART 2 -- Content of construction contracts

           Division 1 -- Prohibited provisions  

   9.      Prohibited: pay if paid/when paid provisions
            
   10.     Prohibited: provisions requiring payment to be made after 42 days
            
   11.     Prohibited: prescribed provisions
            
   12.     Other provisions of contract not affected

           Division 2 -- Implied provisions  

   13.     Variations of contractual obligations
            
   14.     Contractor’s entitlement to be paid
            
   15.     Contractor’s entitlement to claim progress payments
            
   16.     Making claims for payment
            
   17.     Responding to claims for payment
            
   18.     Time for payment
            
   19.     Interest on overdue payments
            
   20.     Ownership of goods
            
   21.     Duties as to unfixed goods on insolvency
            
   22.     Retention money
            
   23.     Implied provisions: interpretation etc.

   PART 3 -- Adjudication of disputes

           Division 1 -- Preliminary  

   24.     Interpretation of construction contract

           Division 2 -- Commencing adjudication  

   25.     Who can apply for adjudication
            
   26.     Applying for adjudication
            
   27.     Responding to application for adjudication
            
   28.     Appointment of adjudicator in absence of agreed appointment
            
   29.     Adjudicators: conflicts of interest

           Division 3 -- The adjudication process  

   30.     Object of adjudication process
            
   31.     Adjudicator’s functions
            
   32.     Adjudication procedure
            
   33.     Interest up to determination
            
   34.     Costs of parties to payment disputes
            
   35.     Certificates of completion etc., effect of
            
   36.     Determination, content of
            
   37.     Dismissed applications

           Division 4 -- Effect of determinations  

   38.     Determinations have effect despite other proceedings
            
   39.     Payment of amount determined and interest
            
   40.     Progress payments under determinations to be on account
            
   41.     Determinations are final

           Division 5 -- Enforcing determinations  

   42.     Non-compliance by principal, contractor may suspend its obligations
            
   43.     Determinations may be enforced as orders of court

           Division 6 -- General  

   44.     Costs of adjudications
            
   45.     Effect of this Part on civil proceedings
            
   46.     Review, limited right of

   PART 4 -- Administration  

   48.     Registering adjudicators
            
   49.     Review of registration decisions
            
   50.     Publication of adjudicators’ decisions
            
   51.     Appointors’ and adjudicators’ rates to be published

   PART 5 -- Miscellaneous  

   53.     No contracting out
            
   54.     Immunity from tortious liability
            
   55.     Regulations
            
   56.      Review of Act

   PART 6 -- Transitional provisions

           Division 1 -- Provisions relating to the Construction Contracts Amendment Act 2016  

   57.     Resubmitted claims: previous adjudications
            
   58.     Extension of periods of time
            
   59.     Effect of notices under s. 42(1) after commencement and before 1 January 2017
            
   60.     Payment periods: contracts entered into before 3 April 2017
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Implied provisions


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