Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   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 50 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 an 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 the 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 judgments

           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  
   52.     Annual report

   PART 5 -- Miscellaneous  

   53.     No contracting out  
   54.     Immunity from tortious liability  
   55.     Regulations  
   56.     Review of Act
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Implied provisions
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