Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 - SECT 5

Definition of construction work

5. Definition of construction work



(1) In this Act, construction work means any of the following work-

   (a)  the construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance,
        extension, demolition or dismantling of buildings or structures
        forming, or to form, part of land (whether permanent or not);

   (b)  the construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance,
        extension, demolition or dismantling of any works forming, or to form,
        part of land, including walls, roadworks, power-lines,
        telecommunication apparatus, aircraft runways, docks and harbours,
        railways, inland waterways, pipelines, reservoirs, water mains, wells,
        sewers, industrial plant and installations for the purposes of land
        drainage or coast protection;

   (c)  the installation in any building, structure or works of fittings
        forming, or to form, part of land, including heating, lighting,
        air-conditioning, ventilation, power supply, drainage, sanitation,
        water supply, fire protection, security and communications systems;

   (d)  the external or internal cleaning of buildings, structures or works,
        so far as it is carried out in the course of their construction,
        alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance or extension;

   (e)  any operation which forms an integral part of, or is preparatory to or
        is for rendering complete, work of the kind referred to in paragraph
        (a), (b) or (c), including-

   (i)  site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling and boring; and

   (ii) the laying of foundations; and

   (iii) the erection, maintenance or dismantling of scaffolding; and

   (iv) the prefabrication of components to form part of any building,
        structure or works, whether carried out on-site or off-site; and

   (v)  site restoration, landscaping and the provision of roadways and other
        access works;

   (f)  the painting or decorating of the internal or external surfaces of any
        building, structure or works;

   (g)  any other work of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this
        subsection.

(2) Despite subsection (1), construction work does not include any of the
following work-

   (a)  the drilling for, or extraction of, oil or natural gas;

   (b)  the extraction (whether by underground or surface working) of
        minerals, including tunnelling or boring, or constructing underground
        works, for that purpose;

   (c)  any other work of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this
        subsection.