Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The building contractor under a regulated contract must ensure any variation of the contract agreed to between the building contractor and building owner is put into written form--
(a) within the shortest practicable time; and
(b) for a variation consisting of an addition to the subject work--before any domestic building work the subject of the variation is carried out.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a building contractor for a variation of a contract if--
(a) the variation is for domestic building work that is required to be carried out urgently; and
(b) it is not reasonably practicable, in the particular circumstances, to produce a variation document before carrying out the work.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if--
(a) a proposed variation of a regulated contract has not yet been agreed to between the building contractor under the contract and the building owner, but is proposed to come into existence on the signing of a variation document by the owner and the contractor; and
(b) the variation document is to be the first and only agreement between the building contractor and the building owner for the particular variation.
(4) If the proposed variation consists of an addition to the subject work, the building contractor must ensure that no domestic building work the subject of the proposed variation is carried out until the variation document has been signed.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(5) When the variation document is signed, the following provisions do not apply for the variation--
(a) subsections (1) and (2);
(b) section 82;
(c) section 83(1)(b);
(d) section 84(2)(a) and (3)(a)(i), to the extent the provisions concern sections 82 and 83(1)(b).