Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A respondent served with a payment claim may reply to the claim by serving a payment schedule on the claimant.
(2) A payment schedule--
(a) must identify the payment claim to which it relates; and
(b) must state the amount of the payment, if any, that the respondent proposes to make (the scheduled amount).
(3) If the scheduled amount is less than the claimed amount, the schedule must state why the scheduled amount is less and, if it is less because the respondent is withholding payment for any reason, the respondent's reasons for withholding payment.
(4) Subsection (5) applies if--
(a) a claimant serves a payment claim on a respondent; and
(b) the respondent does not serve a payment schedule on the claimant within the earlier of--
(i) the time required by the relevant construction contract; or
(ii) 10 business days after the payment claim is served.
(5) The respondent becomes liable to pay the claimed amount to the claimant on the due date for the progress payment to which the payment claim relates.