Construction Contracts (Former Provisions) Act 2004

In this section —

a road, railway, tramway, aircraft runway, canal, waterway, harbour, port or marina; and

a line or cable for electricity or telecommunications; and

a pipeline for water, gas, oil, sewage or other material; and

a path, pavement, ramp, tunnel, slipway, dam, well, aqueduct, drain, levee, seawall or retaining wall; and

any works, apparatus, fittings, machinery or plant associated with any works referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d);

In this Act —

reclaiming, draining, or preventing the subsidence, movement or erosion of, land;

installing, altering, repairing, restoring, maintaining, extending, dismantling, demolishing, or removing, any works, apparatus, fittings, machinery, or plant, associated with any work referred to in paragraph (a);

constructing the whole or a part of any civil works, or a building or structure, that forms or will form, whether permanently or not and whether in WA or not, part of land or the sea bed whether above or below it;

fixing or installing on or in any thing referred to in paragraph (c) any fittings forming, or to form, whether permanently or not, part of the thing, including —

fittings for electricity, gas, water, fuel oil, air, sanitation, irrigation, telecommunications, air‑conditioning, heating, ventilation, fire protection, cleaning, the security of the thing, and the safety of people; and

lifts, escalators, insulation, furniture and furnishings;

altering, repairing, restoring, maintaining, extending, dismantling, demolishing or removing any thing referred to in paragraph (c) or any fittings described in paragraph (d) that form part of that thing;

any work that is preparatory to, necessary for, an integral part of, or for the completion of, any work referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), including —

site or earth works, excavating, earthmoving, tunnelling or boring; and

laying foundations; and

erecting, maintaining or dismantling temporary works, a temporary building, or a temporary structure including a crane or other lifting equipment, and scaffolding; and

cleaning, painting, decorating or treating any surface; and

site restoration and landscaping;

any work that is prescribed by regulations to be construction work for the purposes of this Act.

Despite subsection (2) construction work does not include any of the following work on a site in WA —

drilling for the purposes of discovering or extracting oil or natural gas, whether on land or not;

constructing a shaft, pit or quarry, or drilling, for the purposes of discovering or extracting any mineral bearing or other substance;

fabricating or assembling items of plant used for extracting or processing oil, natural gas or any derivative of natural gas, or any mineral bearing or other substance;

work prescribed by the regulations not to be construction work for the purposes of this Act.

In this Act —