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How To Get Paid For Construction Works Impacted By Covid-19
COVID-19 – the Beginning Rewind. It’s early 2020. You are a Contractor. COVID-19 has hit. Many Principals and Contractors are working together to
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Security of Payment Act NSW – A Guide to NSW SOPA
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Security of Payment in Queensland – A 101 Guide
Security of payment in Queensland is aimed at facilitating fast payments for building and construction industry participants who have performed
Want to Terminate your Construction Contract? Take Care… It Could Backfire
So you’ve hit that point where you’re sick to death of dealing with the other party’s games, and you’re ready to pull the termination
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A failure to comply with the obligations prescribed in the BIF Act can result in huge fines or even jail time. In the below table we summarise both
Caught by the Project Bank Account legislation? What now?
In our last article we discussed the circumstances in which Qld’s Project Bank Account legislation could apply to a head contractor. Below, we take