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SUBCONTRACTORS' CHARGES ACT 1974 - SECT 3AA

3AA Work to include particular manufacture or fabrication and supply of labour

(1) This section--

(a) is intended to establish a limited extension of what is work for this Act under section 3, definition work; and
(b) is not intended to have the effect of causing anything that is work under the definition to stop being work.

(2) Under the definition, work includes work or labour, whether skilled or unskilled, done or commenced upon the land where the contract or subcontract is being performed by a person of any occupation in connection with a matter listed in paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition.

(3) In this Act, work also includes the following--

(a) the manufacture or fabrication, wherever it happens, of project specific components for the contract or subcontract;
(b) the supply of labour for the contract or subcontract.

(4) In this section--

manufacture or fabrication, of project specific components for a contract or subcontract, does not include--

(a) the manufacture or fabrication of project specific components for the contract or subcontract if--
(i) the components have not been fixed in place for the purposes of the contract or subcontract; and
(ii) the components could, without substantial change, reasonably be used other than for the purposes of the contract or subcontract; or
(b) the manufacture or fabrication of project specific components for the contract or subcontract if the manufacture or fabrication consists merely of cutting something to size or mixing things together.
Example of mixing things together--
Mixing things together to make concrete or asphalt.

project specific components, for a contract or subcontract, means components meeting the particular requirements of the contract or subcontract, other than components that are standard or ordinary product lines of a commercially available specification.

supply of labour does not include the supply of a person to perform an activity that is only administrative in nature.



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