Queensland Consolidated Acts

DOMESTIC BUILDING CONTRACTS ACT 2000 - SECT 8

(1) Each of the following is domestic building work--

(a) the erection or construction of a detached dwelling;

(b) the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home;

(c) removal or resiting work for a detached dwelling.

(2) However--

(a) removal work for a detached dwelling is domestic building work only if the dwelling is intended to be resited at another place and used, at the place, as residential premises; and

(b) resiting work for a detached dwelling is domestic building work only if the dwelling is intended to be used at the place at which it is being resited as residential premises.

(3) Domestic building work includes--

(a) work (associated work) associated with the erection, construction, removal or resiting of a detached dwelling; and

(b) work (associated work) associated with the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), associated work includes--

(a) landscaping; and

(b) paving; and

(c) the erection or construction of a building or fixture associated with the detached dwelling or home.

Examples of buildings and fixtures for subsection (4)(c)--

retaining structures, driveways, fencing, garages, carports, workshops, swimming pools and spas

(5) For the erection or construction of a detached dwelling, domestic building work includes the provision of services or facilities to the dwelling or the property on which the dwelling is, or is to be, situated.

(6) For the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home, domestic building work includes the provision of services or facilities to the home or the property on which the home is situated.

Examples of services and facilities for subsections (5) and (6)--

lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water supply, sewerage and drainage

(7) Also, domestic building work includes--

(a) site work relating to work mentioned in subsection (1), (3), (5) or (6); and

(b) work declared under a regulation to be domestic building work if there are reasonable grounds for considering the work to be domestic building work.

(8) However, domestic building work does not include excluded building work.

(9) In this section--

(a) a reference to a detached dwelling includes a reference to any part of a detached dwelling; and

(b) a reference to a home includes a reference to any part of a home; and

(c) a reference to site work includes a reference to work required to be carried out to gain access, or to remove impediments to access, to a site.

(10) In this section--

removal work, for a detached dwelling, means work relating to the dwelling carried out at the place at which the dwelling is located for relocating the dwelling to another place.

resiting work, for a detached dwelling, means work relating to the dwelling carried out at a place for resiting the dwelling at the place following its removal from another place.