Research Agent
Security of Payment research, with sources. The Research Agent reads the legislation, Sopal’s decisions and the courts’ judgment databases, and cites the primary sources it relies on.
What it reads
- Legislation. 49 Acts and regulations for QLD, NSW, VIC and the Commonwealth: Security of Payment, building, plumbing, electrical and gas, interpretation, civil procedure, limitation, electronic transactions and oaths.
- Decisions. Sopal’s 7,601 Queensland adjudication decisions.
- Judgments. The courts’ judgment databases.
Each answer links the sections, decisions and judgments it relies on, so you can read them yourself.
SopalAI is an AI model. Check its work before you rely on it or file it. Sopal does not give legal advice.
When must a payment schedule be given in Queensland?
- legislation search "payment schedule" --qldBuilding Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (Qld)
- legislation read "BIF Act" "s 76"76 Responding to payment claim
- decisions search "payment schedule" w/15 "out of time"173 decisions
- caselaw search "payment schedule" --court QCACourt judgments
Within whichever of these ends first: the period the contract allows, or 15 business days after the payment claim is given.
Source: Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (Qld) s 76(1).
How it is used
- Check a time limit
- Ask when a step is due in a particular State, and get the section.
- Find the governing provision
- Ask which section deals with service, business days or a notice of intention.
- See how it has been treated
- Ask how adjudicators or courts have dealt with an argument.
- Included
- With Sopal Decisions and with Sopal Workspace.