Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING INDUSTRY FAIRNESS (SECURITY OF PAYMENT) ACT 2017 - SECT 97F

97F Respondent to provide information about higher party

(1) The claimant for an adjudicated amount may require the respondent to give the claimant the following information—

(a) the name of the higher party for the adjudicated amount;

(b) the address of the higher party’s place of business or, if the higher party does not have a place of business, the higher party’s place of residence;

(c) whether any amount is, or will become payable, by the higher party to the respondent under an arrangement for—

(i) the construction work to which the adjudicated amount relates; or

(ii) the supply of related goods and services to which the adjudicated amount relates.

(2) The respondent must comply with the requirement within 5 business days after receiving it.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) The respondent must not, in purported compliance with the requirement, give the claimant information that the respondent knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.