The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996

Question 1

What key provisions does the act include?

Answer 1

• The right to be paid in interim, staged or periodic payments
• The right to be informed of any amount due/to be withheld
• The right to suspend performance for non-payment
• The right to adjudication
• Disallowing pay when paid clauses.

Question 2

What scheme applies where contracts do not comply with the act?

Answer 2

The Scheme for Construction Contracts

Question 3

What amendments were made in 2011?

Answer 3

• To close loop holes within its provisions
• Construction contracts can be verbal
• No longer able to define in contract who will bear adjudication costs

Question 4

Under which act where the 2011 amendments made?

Answer 4

Local Democracy & Economic Development Act 2009 (In force from 2011)