The adjudication process starts by the claimant (the contractor owed money) filing an Adjudication Application in the QBCC, together with its supporting material. This is done online. Once it is filed, then the application and supporting material has to be served on the respondent (the person who owes the money) in accordance with the Act, […]
Following on from my earlier articles concerning Queensland’s Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act, the adjudication process is open to a contractor where an amount owed under a payment claim is not paid by the due date, or a payment schedule has the payment amount less than the amount in the payment claim. Since […]
If you have received a payment claim for building work and do not believe that it is owed or there is an offsetting claim, you must respond by serving a valid Payment Schedule on the earlier of 15 business days after the payment claim is received, or a shorter period if specified in the contract. […]
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