Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION ACT 1991 - SECT 67WB

67WB Work not covered under the statutory insurance scheme

(1) The following work is not eligible for assistance from the statutory insurance scheme—

(a) building work on, or on the site of, a building or proposed building that is or forms part of any of the following—

(i) a backpacker’s accommodation, boarding house, caravan park, guest house, holiday accommodation, hostel, hotel, lodging house or motel;

(ii) a correctional centre, lock-up, prison, reformatory or watch house;

(iii) a hospital, nursing home or other health care building;

(iv) an orphanage or children’s home;

(v) a retirement village under the Retirement Villages Act 1999 ;

(vi) an educational institution;

(vii) group accommodation for persons with a physical or mental disability;

(viii) commercial or industrial premises;

(b) building work carried out by a building contractor for a person who is the holder of an owner-builder permit covering the work;

(c) loading, unloading or transporting a building that, if it were fixed to land, could be a residence, or a related roofed building, regardless of whether the transport is within the boundaries of land where the building is located or otherwise;

(d) off-site prefabrication of the whole of a building that could be a residence, or a related roofed building, whether or not the building is in its final form or in parts;

(e) loading, unloading or transporting a completed prefabricated building that could be a residence or a related roofed building, whether the building is transported whole or in parts, regardless of whether the transport is within the boundaries of land where the building is prefabricated, or to be located, or otherwise;

Example of a building transported in parts—

A building is too large to be transported as a completed unit, and is transported on 3 trucks, then joined together on the land where it is to be used.

(f) other work prescribed by regulation.

(2) Any work mentioned in subsection (1) is taken not to be primary insurable work or associated insurable work.

(3) Associated insurable work is not eligible for assistance from the statutory insurance scheme unless carried out under a contract for primary insurable work and—

(a) for primary insurable work relating to a residence—the work is carried out on the site of the residence or proposed residence and is for residential purposes; or

(b) for primary insurable work relating to a related roofed building—the work is carried out on the site of the building or proposed building and is for residential purposes.

(4) In this section—

"completed prefabricated building" includes a prefabricated building—

(a) that has not been placed on land where it is to be used; or

(b) to which services have not been connected, including, for example, electricity or plumbing and drainage.