Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) As soon as practicable (but within 5 business days) after a variation of a regulated contract is agreed to between the building contractor and building owner, the building contractor must give the building owner--
(a) a readily legible signed copy of an appropriate variation document for the variation; or
(b) if acceptable circumstances apply to the building contractor--a readily legible copy of an appropriate variation document for the variation, signed by the building contractor.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1)(b), acceptable circumstances apply to the building contractor if the building contractor has taken all reasonable steps to try to ensure an appropriate variation document for the variation is signed by the building owner, but the building owner has not signed the document.