Queensland Consolidated Regulations

QUEENSLAND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION REGULATION 2018 - REG 43

43 When work is taken to have started—Act, s 71F

(1) For section 71F of the Act , residential construction work is taken to start when—

(a) if the work includes the erection or construction of a footing system or slab or the provision of sewerage or drainage on a site—the erection or construction of the footing system or slab, or the provision of sewerage or drainage, physically starts on the site; or

(b) otherwise—work for the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of an existing building on a site physically starts on the site.

(2) In this section—

"physically starts" , for residential construction work, does not include starting any of the following—

(a) the preparation of plans or specifications for the performance of the work;

(b) design work;

(c) administration services;

(d) earthmoving or excavating;

(e) site work related to the residential construction work.