Construction Contracts Bill

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Construction Contracts Bill

Introduction

It is more than four years since Gordon Brown, the then

Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced the review of the

Construction Act and at last the Department for Business Enterprise

and Regulatory Reform ("BERR") has issued for

consultation a draft Bill to amend Part II of the Housing Grants,

Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

It appears that, on the assumption that the draft Bill can be

taken forward following the consultation in whatever form it may

then take, the intention is to present the draft legislation to

Parliament in the Queen's Speech in early December this year

but that, all things being...

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