Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The principal contractor for construction work, other than prescribed construction work, is the person appointed by the client as the principal contractor for the construction work under section 184A.
(2) If the client does not appoint a principal contractor for the construction work, the client is taken to be the principal contractor for the construction work.
(3) The principal contractor for prescribed construction work is the person who is in control of the prescribed construction work.
Note--
For construction work for which there is no client and that is not prescribed construction work, there is no principal contractor.
(4) In this section--
prescribed construction work means construction work that--
(a) is for a structure that is a class 1a building or an associated class 10a building; and
(b) has an estimated final price of more than $80000.