Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) For this Act, the "building and construction industry", in relation to industry in the ACT, is the industry of constructing, reconstructing, renovating, altering, demolishing or maintaining the following:
(a) buildings, fences or swimming pools;
(b) roadworks, railways, airfields or other works for the carriage of people, animals or vehicles;
(c) breakwaters, docks, jetties, piers, wharves or works for the improvement or alteration of a harbour, river or watercourse for the purpose of navigation;
(d) works for the storage or supply of water or the irrigation of land;
(e) works for the carriage, treatment or disposal of sewage or the effluent from any premises;
(f) bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, tunnels or pipelines;
(g) chimneystacks, cooling towers, drilling rigs, gas holders or silos;
(h) structures, fixtures or works for use in any building or works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (g);
(i) navigational lights, beacons or markers;
(j) works for the drainage of land;
(k) works for the storage of liquids (other than water) or gases;
(l) works for the transmission of electric power or wireless or telegraphic communications.
(2) Also for this Act, the building and construction industry , in relation to industry in the ACT, includes the following for building or other works mentioned in subsection (1):
(a) pile driving and site preparation;
(b) installing data cabling or security or electronic communication systems;
(c) laying floor coverings;
(d) hard landscaping.
(3) For this Act, the "building and construction industry", in relation to industry carried out in a reciprocating State, is the building and construction industry within the meaning of the corresponding law of the State.
Note State includes the Northern Territory (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1).