Kerry Powell BA Hons. LLB. QC Gowling WLG (Canada)
The Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act comes into result currently. It is crucial to know if the new laws – prompt payment, extended builders’ lien intervals, and adjudication method – utilize to you and the project that you are concerned in.
Below are the transitionary provisions of the new legislation:
- Anybody who is doing do the job, delivering expert services, or furnishing products or components with respect to an advancement in land have to comply with the new legislation
- The new laws does not apply to Public Functions assignments, P3’s with the Government of Alberta, Federal Authorities projects, or functions and upkeep function that does not require an enhancement to the undertaking lands
- The new legislation applies to municipal, county and regional district initiatives carried out in Alberta
- The new laws applies equally to proprietors which include household builders, architects and qualified engineers who are registered as experts and offering consulting providers to an improvement, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers
- The new laws will apply to your contract irrespective of the style of contracting tactic or product, or payment procedure that is becoming used
- The new laws applies to suppliers even if they are located outside of Alberta as extended their item is staying utilized in an advancement in Alberta
- The new legislative provisions use to contracts involving an proprietor and a contractor entered into on or following August 29, 2022
- The new legislation will utilize to subcontracts and source agreements based on the day of the contract involving the proprietor and the contractor – NOT the day of that the subcontract or source arrangement is entered into between the subcontractor and the contractor or the provider or the contractor – so you will require to know the date of the primary deal to know if the new legislation applies to your subcontract or provider settlement
- The provisions of the aged Builders’ Lien Act will carry on to use if the prime agreement was entered into prior to August 29, 2022 even if a subcontract or supply arrangement is entered following August 29, 2022 and
- If the period of the deal in between the owner and the contractor exceeds two several years from August 29, 2022, soon after two decades the new legislation will implement to the agreement, and the deal terms, including all subcontracts and source agreements, have to be revised to comply with the new laws.
We hope that this reminder can help you realize regardless of whether or not the new legislation applies to your agreement, subcontractor or provider settlement.
We are equally hopeful that the new laws presents an opportunity for our market to adapt to a consistent and reliable payment method and stay clear of undesirable and expensive conflict around payment difficulties, so that the business can do what it does greatest – build for the upcoming of Alberta.
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