Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purpose

1. Purpose

The main purposes of this Act are-

   (a)  to regulate contracts for the carrying out of domestic building work;
        and

   (b)  to provide for the resolution of domestic building disputes and other
        matters by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal; and

   (c)  to require builders carrying out domestic building work to be covered
        by insurance in relation to that work; and

   (d)  to amend the House Contracts Guarantee Act 1987, and in particular, to
        phase out the making of claims under that Act.