(1) A person referred
to in section 8 who is or who claims to be
entitled to a progress payment (the "claimant") may serve a payment claim on
the person who, under the contract concerned, is or may be liable to make the
payment.
(2) A payment
claim—
(a) must
identify the construction work (or related goods and services) to which the
progress payment relates; and
(b) must
indicate the amount of the progress payment that the claimant
claims to be due (the "claimed amount"); and
(c) must
state that it is made under this Act.
(3) The claimed amount
may include an amount—
(a) that
the respondent is liable to pay the claimant under section 28(3); or
(b) that
is held under the construction contract by the respondent and that the
claimant claims is due for release.
(4) A payment claim
may be served only within—
(a) the
period determined by or in accordance with the terms of the construction
contract; or
(b) the
period of 6 months after the construction work to which the claim relates
was last carried out (or the related goods and services to which the claim
relates were last supplied),
whichever is the later.
(5) A claimant cannot
serve more than 1 payment claim in respect of each reference date under
the construction contract.
(6) However,
subsection (5) does not prevent the claimant from including in a payment
claim an amount that has been the subject of a previous claim.