The objectives of these Regulations are—
(a) to prescribe certain work as building work to which the Act does not apply;
(b) to allow certain contracts to be cost plus contracts for the purposes of section 13 of the Act;
(c) to prescribe, with regard to progress payments, the manner in which parties to a contract may agree that sections 40(2) and (3) of the Act do not apply;
(d) to exempt certain persons and contracts from various provisions of the Act; and
(e) to prescribe other matters necessary for the purposes of the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 .