Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PAYMENTS ACT 2004 - SECT 84

(1) This section applies if--

(a) the registration of an authorised nominating authority or an adjudicator is suspended or cancelled or otherwise ends; and

(b) an adjudication application has been made to the authorised nominating authority, or referred to the adjudicator, for an adjudication of a payment claim; and

(c) an adjudicator has not made a decision under section 26 in relation to the adjudication application.

(2) The adjudication application is taken to have been withdrawn by the claimant under section 32(2)(a) and the claimant may make a new adjudication application under section 21.

(3) Despite section 21(3)(c), a new adjudication application may be made at any time within 5 business days after the claimant becomes aware the registration has ended.

(4) Part 3, division 2, applies to a new application mentioned in this section in the same way as it applies to an application under section 21.

(5) Neither the authorised nominating authority nor the adjudicator is entitled to any fees or expenses in relation to the adjudication application taken to have been withdrawn.