Puerto Galera Pty Ltd v JM Kelly (Project Builders) Pty Ltd

• 1. Building and Engineering Contracts
  2. › Superintendent
  3. › Role and functions under building contract
  4. › Whether superintendent's functions constitute 'building work'
  5. › Whether provision of advisory, administration, management or supervisory services 'in relation to the building work'
  6. › Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991 (Qld), s 42(1), s 42(2)(a), s 42(2)(b)
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Construction of penal statutes
  3. › Extended definitions
  4. › Meaning of 'building work' under licensing legislation
  5. › Scope of s 42(2)(b) — 'in relation to the building work'
  6. › Definite article limiting scope to building work carried out by the person
  7. › Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991 (Qld), s 42
• 1. Contract
  2. › Illegality
  3. › Effect of statutory contravention on contract
  4. › Whether contract vitiated by unlicensed performance of superintendent's role
  5. › Whether statute impliedly prohibits contract
  6. › Yango categories of illegality
  7. › Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991 (Qld), s 42
• 1. Arbitration
  2. › Commercial arbitration
  3. › Reference of questions of law to court
  4. › Commercial Arbitration Act 1990 (Qld), s 39

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