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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Name of Act Commencement Object Definitions Definition of "construction work" Definition of "related goods and services" Application of Act 2 2 2 3 4 6 6
8 Rights to progress payments 9 Amount of progress payment 10 Valuation of construction work and related goods and services 11 Due date for payment 12 Effect of "pay when paid" provisions 8 8 9 10 10
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Contents Page
Procedure for recovering progress payments Payment claims and payment schedules
13 Payment claims 14 Payment schedules 15 Consequences of not paying claimant where no payment schedule 16 Consequences of not paying claimant in accordance with payment schedule
13 14 15 15 15 16 17 18 19 20
Adjudication applications Eligibility criteria for adjudicators Appointment of adjudicator Adjudication responses Adjudication procedures Adjudicator's determination Respondent's obligations following adjudicator's determination 24 Designated trust accounts 25 Consequences of not complying with adjudicator's determination 26 Claimant may make new application if previous application refused or not determined
Claimant's right to suspend construction work
28 Nominating authorities 29 Adjudicator's fees
30 Exclusion of liability for adjudicator's acts and omissions 31 Service of notices 32 Effect of Part on civil proceedings
33 34 35 36 37 38 Act binds Crown No contracting out Regulations Amendment of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 No 160 Savings and transitional provisions Review of Act 24 24 24 24 24 25
1 Amendment of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 2 Savings and transitional provisions 26 27
Act No 46, 1999
An Act with respect to payments for construction work carried out, and related goods and services supplied, under construction contracts; and for other purposes. [Assented to 5 October 1999]
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Preliminary
(1) The object of this Act is to ensure that any person who carries out construction work (or who supplies related goods and services) under a construction contract is entitled to receive, and is able to recover, specified progress payments in relation to the carrying out of such work and the supplying of such goods and services. (2) The means by which this Act ensures that a person is entitled to receive a progress payment is by granting a statutory entitlement to such a payment in circumstances where the relevant construction contract fails to do so. (3) The means by which this Act ensures that a person is able to recover a progress payment is by establishing a procedure that involves: (a) the making of a payment claim by the person claiming payment, and (b) the provision of a payment schedule by the person by whom the payment is payable, and (c) the referral of any disputed claim to an adjudicator for determination, and (d) the setting aside of money as security for payment of the progress payment so determined. (4) It is intended: (a) that this Act does not limit any other entitlement that a person may have under a construction contract, or any other remedy that a person may have for recovering any such other entitlement, and
in particular, that the setting aside of money as security does not prejudice any claim, counter-claim or defence that may be raised in civil proceedings concerning the work to which a payment claim relates, but merely ensures that money will be available to satisfy those entitlements when they are finally determined.
In this Act: adjudicated amount means the amount of a progress payment that an adjudicator determines to be payable, as referred to in section 22. adjudication application means an application referred to in section 17. adjudication response means a response referred to in section 20. adjudicator, in relation to an adjudication application, means the person appointed in accordance with this Act to determine the application. authorised nominating authority means a person authorised by the Minister under section 28 to nominate persons to determine adjudication applications. business day means any day other than: (a) a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, or (b) 27, 28, 29, 30 or 31 December. claimant means a person by whom a payment claim is served under section 13. claimed amount means an amount of a progress payment claimed to be due for construction work carried out, or for related goods and services supplied, as referred to in section 13. construction contract means a contract or other arrangement under which one party undertakes to carry out construction work, or to supply related goods and services, for another party. construction work is defined in section 5. designated trust account means an account kept with a recognised financial institution (whether in the name of the respondent or otherwise) for the purpose of holding adjudicated amounts payable to claimants under this Act.
due date, in relation to a progress payment, means the due date for the progress payment, as referred to in section 11. exercise a function includes perform a duty. function includes a power, authority or duty. payment claim means a claim referred to in section 13. payment schedule means a schedule referred to in section 14. progress payment means a payment to which a person is entitled under section 8. public authority means: (a) a public or local authority constituted by or under an Act, or (b) a Government Department, or (c) a statutory body representing the Crown, or (d) a statutory State owned corporation (and its subsidiaries) within the meaning of the State Owned Corporations Act 1989, and includes any person exercising functions on behalf of any such authority, Department, body or corporation. recognised financial institution means a bank or any other person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition. related goods and services is defined in section 6. respondent means a person on whom a payment claim is served under section 13. scheduled amount means the amount of a progress payment that is proposed to be made under a payment schedule, as referred to in section 14.
(1) In this Act, construction work means any of the following work: (a) the construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance, extension, demolition or dismantling of buildings or structures forming, or to form, part of land (whether permanent or not), (b) the construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance, extension, demolition or dismantling of any works forming, or
to form, part of land, including walls, roadworks, power-lines, telecommunication apparatus, aircraft runways, docks and harbours, railways, inland waterways, pipelines, reservoirs, water mains, wells, sewers, industrial plant and installations for purposes of land drainage or coast protection, the installation in any building or structure of fittings forming, or to form, part of land, including heating, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation, power supply, drainage, sanitation, water supply, fire protection, security and communications systems, the external or internal cleaning of buildings and structures, so far as it is carried out in the course of their construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance or extension, any operation which forms an integral part of, or is preparatory to or is for rendering complete, work of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), including: (i) site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling and boring, and (ii) the laying of foundations, and (iii) the erection, maintenance or dismantling of scaffolding, and (iv) the prefabrication of components to form part of any building or structure, whether carried out on-site or offsite, and (v) site restoration, landscaping and the provision of roadways and other access works, the painting or decorating of the internal or external surfaces of any building or structure, any other work of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
(2) Despite subsection (1), construction work does not include any of the following work: (a) the drilling for, or extraction of, oil or natural gas, (b) the extraction (whether by underground or surface working) of minerals, including tunnelling or boring, or constructing underground works, for that purpose, (c) any other work of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
Definition of "related goods and services"
(1) In this Act, related goods and services, in relation to construction work, means any of the following goods and services: (a) goods of the following kind: (i) materials and components to form part of any building, structure or work arising from construction work, (ii) plant or materials (whether supplied by sale, hire or otherwise) for use in connection with the carrying out of construction work, (b) services of the following kind: (i) the provision of labour to carry out construction work, (ii) architectural, design, surveying or quantity surveying services in relation to construction work, (iii) building, engineering, interior or exterior decoration or landscape advisory services in relation to construction work, (c) goods and services of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection. (2) Despite subsection (1), related goods and services does not include any goods or services of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
(1) Subject to this section, this Act applies to any construction contract, whether written or oral, or partly written and partly oral, and so applies even if the contract is expressed to be governed by the law of a jurisdiction other than New South Wales. (2) This Act does not apply to: (a) a construction contract that forms part of a loan agreement, a contract of guarantee or a contract of insurance under which a recognised financial institution undertakes: (i) to lend money or to repay money lent, or (ii) to guarantee payment of money owing or repayment of money lent, or (iii) to provide an indemnity with respect to construction work carried out, or related goods and services supplied, under the construction contract, or
a construction contract for the carrying out of residential building work (within the meaning of the Home Building Act 1989) on such part of any premises as the party for whom the work is carried out resides in or proposes to reside in, or a construction contract under which it is agreed that the consideration payable for construction work carried out under the contract, or for related goods and services supplied under the contract, is to be calculated otherwise than by reference to the value of the work carried out or the value of the goods and services supplied.
(3) This Act does not apply to a construction contract to the extent to which it contains: (a) provisions under which a party undertakes to carry out construction work, or supply related goods and services, as an employee (within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996) of the party for whom the work is to be carried out or the related goods and services are to be supplied, or (b) provisions under which a party undertakes to carry out construction work, or to supply related goods and services, as a condition of a loan agreement with a recognised financial institution, or (c) provisions under which a party undertakes: (i) to lend money or to repay money lent, or (ii) to guarantee payment of money owing or repayment of money lent, or (iii) to provide an indemnity with respect to construction work carried out, or related goods and services supplied, under the construction contract. (4) This Act does not apply to a construction contract to the extent to which it deals with: (a) construction work carried out outside New South Wales, and (b) related goods and services supplied in respect of construction work carried out outside New South Wales. (5) This Act does not apply to any construction contract, or class of construction contracts, prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Rights to progress payments
(1) On and from each reference date under a construction contract, a person: (a) who has undertaken to carry out construction work under the contract, or (b) who has undertaken to supply related goods and services under the contract, is entitled to a progress payment under this Act, calculated by reference to that date. (2) In this section, reference date, in relation to a construction contract, means: (a) a date determined by or in accordance with the terms of the contract as: (i) a date on which a claim for a progress payment may be made, or (ii) a date by reference to which the amount of a progress payment is to be calculated, in relation to work carried out or to be carried out (or related goods and services supplied or to be supplied) under the contract, or if the contract makes no express provision with respect to the matter, the date occurring 4 weeks after the previous reference date or (in the case of the first reference date) the date occurring 4 weeks after construction work was first carried out (or related goods and services were first supplied) under the contract.
The amount of a progress payment to which a person is entitled in respect of a construction contract is to be: (a) the amount calculated in accordance with the terms of the contract, or
if the contract makes no express provision with respect to the matter, the amount calculated on the basis of the value of construction work carried out by the person (or of related goods and services supplied by the person) under the contract.
Valuation of construction work and related goods and services
(1) Construction work carried out under a construction contract is to be valued: (a) in accordance with the terms of the contract, or (b) if the contract makes no express provision with respect to the matter, having regard to: (i) the contract price for the work, and (ii) any other rates or prices set out in the contract, and (iii) any variation agreed to by the parties to the contract by which the contract price, or any other rate or price set out in the contract, is to be adjusted by a specific amount, and (iv) if any of the work is defective, the estimated cost of rectifying the defect. (2) Related goods and services supplied under a construction contract are to be valued: (a) in accordance with the terms of the contract, or (b) if the contract makes no express provision with respect to the matter, having regard to: (i) the contract price for the goods and services, and (ii) any other rates or prices set out in the contract, and (iii) any variation agreed to by the parties to the contract by which the contract price, or any other rate or price set out in the contract, is to be adjusted by a specific amount, and (iv) if any of the goods are defective, the estimated cost of rectifying the defect, and, in the case of materials and components that are to form part of any building, structure or work arising from construction work, on the basis that the only materials and components to be included in the valuation are those that have become (or, on payment, will become) the property of the party for whom construction work is being carried out.
Section 11 Part 2
A progress payment under a construction contract becomes due and payable: (a) on the date on which the payment becomes due and payable in accordance with the terms of the contract, or (b) if the contract makes no express provision with respect to the matter, on the date occurring 2 weeks after a payment claim is made under Part 3 in relation to the payment.
(1) A pay when paid provision of a construction contract has no effect in relation to any payment for construction work carried out (or for related goods and services supplied) under the contract. (2) In this section: money owing, in relation to a construction contract, means money owing for construction work carried out (or for related goods and services supplied) under the contract. pay when paid provision of a construction contract means a provision of the contract: (a) that makes the liability of one party (the first party) to pay money owing to another party (the second party) contingent on payment to the first party by a further party (the third party) of the whole or any part of that money, or (b) that makes the due date for payment of money owing by the first party to the second party dependent on the date on which payment of the whole or any part of that money is made to the first party by the third party.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Procedure for recovering progress payments Payment claims and payment schedules
Section 13 Part 3 Division 1
(1) A person who is entitled to a progress payment under a construction contract (the claimant) may serve a payment claim on the person who under the contract is liable to make the payment. (2) A payment claim: (a) must identify the construction work (or related goods and services) to which the progress payment relates, and (b) must indicate the amount of the progress payment that the claimant claims to be due for the construction work done (or related goods and services supplied) to which the payment relates (the claimed amount), and (c) must state that it is made under this Act.
(1) A person on whom a payment claim is served (the respondent) may reply to the claim by providing a payment schedule to the claimant. (2) A payment schedule: (a) must identify the payment claim to which it relates, and (b) must indicate the amount of the payment (if any) that the respondent proposes to make (the scheduled amount). (3) If the scheduled amount is less than the claimed amount, the schedule must indicate why the scheduled amount is less and (if it is less because the respondent is withholding payment for any reason) the respondent's reasons for withholding payment. (4) If: (a) (b) a claimant serves a payment claim on a respondent, and the respondent does not provide a payment schedule to the claimant: (i) within the time required by the relevant construction contract, or
Section 14 Part 3 Division 1
within 10 business days after the payment claim is served,
whichever time expires earlier, the respondent becomes liable to pay the claimed amount to the claimant on the due date for the progress payment to which the payment claim relates.
(1) This section applies if the respondent: (a) becomes liable to pay the claimed amount to the claimant under section 14 (4) as a consequence of having failed to provide a payment schedule to the claimant within the time allowed by that section, and (b) fails to pay the whole or any part of the claimed amount on or before the due date for the progress payment to which the payment claim relates. (2) In those circumstances, the claimant: (a) may recover the unpaid portion of the claimed amount from the respondent, as a debt due to the claimant, in any court of competent jurisdiction, and (b) may serve notice on the respondent of the claimant's intention to suspend carrying out construction work (or to suspend supplying related goods and services) under the construction contract. (3) A notice referred to in subsection (2) (b) must state that it is made under this Act. (4) Judgment in favour of the claimant is not to be entered unless the court is satisfied of the existence of the circumstances referred to in subsection (1).
(1) This section applies if: (a) a claimant serves a payment claim on a respondent, and (b) the respondent provides a payment schedule to the claimant: (i) within the time required by the relevant construction contract, or
Section 16 Part 3 Division 1
whichever time expires earlier, and the payment schedule indicates a scheduled amount that the respondent proposes to pay to the claimant, and the respondent fails to pay the whole or any part of the scheduled amount to the claimant on or before the due date for the progress payment to which the payment claim relates.
(2) In those circumstances, the claimant: (a) may recover the unpaid portion of the scheduled amount from the respondent, as a debt due to the claimant, in any court of competent jurisdiction, and (b) may serve notice on the respondent of the claimant's intention to suspend carrying out construction work (or to suspend supplying related goods and services) under the construction contract. (3) A notice referred to in subsection (2) (b) must state that it is made under this Act. (4) Judgment in favour of the claimant is not to be entered unless the court is satisfied of the existence of the circumstances referred to in subsection (1).
(1) If the scheduled amount indicated by a payment schedule is less than the claimed amount indicated in the payment claim, the claimant may apply for adjudication of the progress payment to be made (an adjudication application). (2) An adjudication application: (a) must be in writing, and (b) must identify the payment claim and the payment schedule to which it relates, and (c) may contain such submissions relevant to the application as the claimant chooses to include.
Section 17 Part 3 Division 2
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Procedure for recovering progress payments Adjudication of disputes
(3) An adjudication application: (a) must be made: (i) to an adjudicator chosen by agreement between the claimant and the respondent (being a person who is eligible to be an adjudicator as referred to in section 18), or (ii) if no adjudicator is agreed on, to an authorised nominating authority chosen by agreement between the claimant and the respondent, or (iii) if no nominating authority is agreed on, to an authorised nominating authority chosen by the claimant, and (b) must be made within 5 business days after the claimant receives the payment schedule. (4) No agreement between the claimant and the respondent that was made before the claimant received the payment schedule has any effect in relation to the choice of an adjudicator under subsection (3) (a) (i). (5) A copy of the adjudication application must be served on the respondent. (6) This section does not limit the operation of any provision of the construction contract in relation to the resolution of disputes between the claimant and the respondent. (7) It is the duty of an authorised nominating authority to which an adjudication application is made to refer the application to an adjudicator (being a person who is eligible to be an adjudicator as referred to in section 18) as soon as practicable.
(1) A person is eligible to be an adjudicator in relation to a construction contract: (a) if the person is a natural person, and (b) if the person has such qualifications, expertise and experience as may be prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
Section 18 Part 3 Division 2
(2) A person is not eligible to be an adjudicator in relation to a particular construction contract: (a) if the person is a party to the contract, or (b) in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
(1) An adjudicator accepts an adjudication application by causing notice of acceptance to be served on the claimant and the respondent. (2) On accepting an adjudication application, the adjudicator is taken to have been appointed to determine the application.
(1) The respondent may lodge with the adjudicator a response to the claimant's adjudication application (the adjudication response) at any time within: (a) 5 business days after receiving a copy of the application, or (b) 2 business days after receiving notice of an adjudicator's acceptance of the application, whichever time expires later. (2) The adjudication response: (a) must be in writing, and (b) must identify the adjudication application to which it relates, and (c) may contain such submissions relevant to the response as the respondent chooses to include. (3) A copy of the adjudication response must be served on the claimant.
(1) An adjudicator is not to determine an adjudication application until after the end of the period within which the respondent may lodge an adjudication response. (2) An adjudicator is not to consider an adjudication response unless it was made before the end of the period within which the respondent may lodge such a response.
Section 21 Part 3 Division 2
(3) Subject to subsections (1) and (2), an adjudicator is to determine an adjudication application as expeditiously as possible and, in any case: (a) within 10 business days after the date on which the adjudicator notified the claimant and the respondent as to his or her acceptance of the application, or (b) within such further time as the claimant and the respondent may agree. (4) For the purposes of any proceedings conducted to determine an adjudication application, an adjudicator: (a) may request further written submissions from either party and must give the other party an opportunity to comment on those submissions, and (b) may set deadlines for further submissions and comments by the parties, and (c) may call a conference of the parties, and (d) may carry out an inspection of any matter to which the claim relates. (5) The adjudicator's power to determine an adjudication application is not affected by the failure of either or both of the parties to make a submission or comment within time or to comply with the adjudicator's call for a conference of the parties.
(1) An adjudicator is to determine: (a) the amount of the progress payment (if any) to be paid by the respondent to the claimant (the adjudicated amount), and (b) the date on which any such amount became or becomes payable. (2) In determining an adjudication application, the adjudicator is to consider the following matters only: (a) the provisions of this Act, (b) the provisions of the construction contract from which the application arose, (c) the payment claim to which the application relates, together with all submissions (including relevant documentation) that have been duly made by the claimant in support of the claim,
Section 22 Part 3 Division 2
the payment schedule to which the application relates, together with all submissions (including relevant documentation) that have been duly made by the respondent in support of the schedule, the results of any inspection carried out by the adjudicator of any matter to which the claim relates.
(3) The adjudicator's determination must be in writing and must include: (a) the reasons for the determination, and (b) the basis on which any amount or date has been decided, if, before the making of the determination, either the claimant or the respondent requests the adjudicator to include those matters in the determination.
23 Respondent's obligations following adjudicator's determination
(1) If an adjudicator determines an adjudication application by determining that the respondent must pay an adjudicated amount to the claimant, the respondent: (a) must pay that amount to the claimant, or (b) must give security for payment of that amount to the claimant pending the final determination of the matters in dispute between them. (2) The security given by a respondent may be in any of the following forms: (a) an unconditional promise by a recognised financial institution to pay to the claimant, on demand, the adjudicated amount, or (b) payment of the adjudicated amount into a designated trust account, or (c) such other form as may be agreed between the claimant and the respondent. (3) If the respondent is a public authority, the security may be in the form of a certificate by the authority to the effect that sufficient money will be legally available for payment of any amount up to the adjudicated amount if and when any such amount becomes payable.
Section 23 Part 3 Division 2
(4) Except with the consent of the parties, it is unlawful for the claimant to enforce any security given under this section until at least 2 business days after any matters in dispute between them in connection with the progress payment to which the security relates have been finally determined. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), a determination becomes final: (a) in the case of a determination from which there is no right of appeal or review, when the determination is made, or (b) in the case of a determination from which there is a right of appeal or review, when the right of appeal or review expires or (if the determination becomes subject to appeal or review proceedings) when those proceedings have been finally disposed of.
24 Designated trust accounts
(1) On paying money into a designated trust account as referred to in section 23 (2) (b), the respondent is to cause notice of that fact, together with particulars identifying the account and the recognised financial institution with which the account is kept, to be given to the claimant. (2) Money held in a designated trust account (including any interest accruing to such money) is taken to be held on the following trusts: (a) to the extent to which the money is required to satisfy the claimant's entitlements, the money is to be applied in satisfaction of those entitlements, (b) the claimant's entitlements in respect of an earlier progress claim are to be satisfied before the claimant's entitlements in respect of a later progress claim, (c) to the extent to which any of the money remains in the account after the claimant's entitlements have been fully satisfied, the money is to be paid to the respondent. (3) Subject to subsection (2), the regulations may make provision for or with respect to the establishment and operation of designated trust accounts.
Section 24 Part 3 Division 2
(4) In this section, claimant's entitlements, in relation to money held in a designated trust account, means the amount (if any) to which the claimant becomes entitled after any matters in dispute between them in connection with the progress payment to which the money relates have been finally determined. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), a determination becomes final: (a) in the case of a determination from which there is no right of appeal or review, when the determination is made, or (b) in the case of a determination from which there is a right of appeal or review, when the right of appeal or review expires or (if the determination becomes subject to appeal or review proceedings) when those proceedings have been finally disposed of.
25 Consequences of not complying with adjudicator's determination
(1) This section applies if, on or before the relevant date, a respondent fails to do one or other of the following: (a) to pay the whole or any part of the adjudicated amount to a claimant, (b) to give security for payment of the whole or any part of the adjudicated amount to a claimant. (2) In those circumstances, the claimant: (a) may recover the unpaid, or unsecured, portion of the adjudicated amount from the respondent, as a debt due to the claimant, in any court of competent jurisdiction, and (b) may serve notice on the respondent of the claimant's intention to suspend carrying out construction work (or to suspend supplying related goods and services) under the construction contract. (3) A notice referred to in subsection (2) (b) must state that it is made under this Act. (4) Judgment in favour of the claimant is not to be entered unless the court is satisfied of the existence of the circumstances referred to in subsection (1).
Section 25 Part 3 Division 2
(5) In this section, relevant date means: (a) the date occurring 2 business days after the date on which the relevant determination is made under section 22, or (b) if the adjudicator determines a later date under section 22 (1) (b), that later date.
26 Claimant may make new application if previous application refused or not determined
(1) This section applies if: (a) a claimant fails to receive an adjudicator's notice of acceptance of an adjudication application within 4 business days after the application is made, or (b) an adjudicator who accepts an adjudication application fails to determine the application within the time allowed by section 21 (3). (2) In either of those circumstances, the claimant: (a) may withdraw the application, by notice in writing served on the adjudicator or authorised nominating authority to whom the application was made, and (b) may make a new adjudication application under section 17. (3) Despite section 17 (3) (b), a new adjudication application may be made at any time within 5 business days after the claimant becomes entitled to withdraw the previous adjudication application under subsection (2). (4) This Division applies to a new application referred to in this section in the same way as it applies to an application under section 17.
Claimant may suspend work
(1) A claimant may suspend the carrying out of construction work (or the supply of related goods and services) under a construction contract if at least 2 business days have passed since the claimant has caused notice of intention to do so to be given to the respondent under section 15, 16 or 25.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Procedure for recovering progress payments Claimant's right to suspend construction work
Section 27 Part 3 Division 3
(2) The right conferred by subsection (1) exists only for so long as the respondent fails to comply with the requirements referred to in section 15 (1), 16 (1) or 25 (1), as the case may be. (3) A claimant who suspends construction work (or the supply of related goods and services) in accordance with the right conferred by subsection (1) is not liable for any loss or damage suffered by the respondent, or by any person claiming through the respondent, as a consequence of the claimant not carrying out that work (or not supplying those goods and services) during the period of suspension.
(1) Subject to the regulations, the Minister: (a) may, on application made by any person, authorise the applicant to nominate adjudicators for the purposes of this Act, and (b) may withdraw any authority so given. (2) A person: (a) whose application for authority to nominate adjudicators for the purposes of this Act is refused, or (b) whose authority to nominate adjudicators is withdrawn, may apply to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal for a review of the Minister's decision to take that action.
(1) An adjudicator is entitled to be paid for adjudicating an adjudication application: (a) such amount, by way of fees and expenses, as is agreed between the adjudicator and the parties to the adjudication, or (b) if no such amount is agreed, such amount, by way of fees and expenses, as is reasonable having regard to the work done and expenses incurred by the adjudicator. (2) The claimant and respondent are jointly and severally liable to pay the adjudicator's fees and expenses.
Section 29 Part 3 Division 4
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Procedure for recovering progress payments General
(3) As between themselves, the claimant and respondent are each liable to contribute to the adjudicator's fees and expenses in equal proportions or, if the adjudicator determines that the adjudication application or the adjudication response was wholly unfounded, in such proportions as the adjudicator may determine. (4) An adjudicator is not entitled to be paid any fees or expenses in connection with the adjudication of an adjudication application if he or she fails to make a decision on the application (otherwise than because the application is withdrawn or the dispute between the claimant and respondent is resolved) within the time allowed by section 21 (3). (5) Subsection (4) does not apply: (a) in circumstances in which an adjudicator refuses to communicate his or her decision on an adjudication application until his or her fees and expenses are paid, or (b) in such other circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
30 Exclusion of liability for adjudicator's acts and omissions
No action lies against an adjudicator or any other person with respect to anything done or omitted to be done by the adjudicator in good faith in the exercise of the adjudicator's functions under this Act.
(1) Any notice that by or under this Act is authorised or required to be served on a person may be served on the person: (a) by delivering it to the person personally, or (b) by lodging it during normal office hours at the person's ordinary place of business, or (c) by sending it by post or facsimile addressed to the person's ordinary place of business, or (d) in such other manner as may be prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section. (2) Service of a notice that is sent to a person's ordinary place of business, as referred to in subsection (1) (c), is taken to have been effected when the notice is received at that place.
Section 31 Part 3 Division 4
(1) Subject to section 34, nothing in this Part affects any right that a party to a construction contract: (a) may have under the contract, or (b) may have under Part 2 in respect of the contract, or (c) may have apart from this Act in respect of anything done or omitted to be done under the contract. (2) Nothing done under or for the purposes of this Part affects any civil proceedings arising under a construction contract, whether under this Part or otherwise, except as provided by subsection (3). (3) In any proceedings before a court or tribunal in relation to any matter arising under a construction contract, the court or tribunal: (a) must allow for any amount paid to a party to the contract under or for the purposes of this Part in any order or award it makes in those proceedings, and (b) may make such orders as it considers appropriate for the restitution of any amount so paid, and such other orders as it considers appropriate, having regard to its decision in those proceedings.
Section 33 Part 4
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Miscellaneous
A provision of any agreement (whether in writing or not) under which the operation of this Act is excluded, modified or restricted, or which has the effect of excluding, modifying or restricting the operation of this Act, is void.
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) The regulations may, either unconditionally or subject to conditions, exempt: (a) any specified person or class of persons, or (b) any specified matter or class of matters, from the operation of this Act or of any specified provision of this Act. (3) The commencement of a regulation referred to in section 5, 6 or 7 does not affect the operation of this Act with respect to construction work carried out, or related goods and services supplied, under a construction contract entered into before that commencement.
36 Amendment of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 No 160
The Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
Section 38 Part 4
(1) The Minister is to review this Act to determine whether the policy objectives of the Act remain valid and whether the terms of the Act remain appropriate for securing those objectives. (2) The review is to be undertaken as soon as possible after the period of 3 years from the date of assent to this Act. (3) A report on the outcome of the review is to be tabled in each House of Parliament within 3 months after the end of the period of 3 years.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Schedule 1 Amendment of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984
Amendment of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984
Section 3 Repeal, transitional and application provisions
Insert after section 3 (7): (8) Nothing in this Act affects the operation of Part 3 of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999.
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 No 46 Savings and transitional provisions Schedule 2
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts: Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (2) Such a provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later day. (3) To the extent to which such a provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as: (a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of that publication, or (b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of that publication.
[Minister's second reading speech made in-- Legislative Assembly on 8 September 1999 Legislative Council on 22 September 1999]