A good example of this can been seen between New South Wales and Queensland, where two different pieces of legislation would set the standards for the process to include: Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (for New South Wales) and Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (for Queensland). This proved problematic, because parties could go through the adjudication process and if they lose, they could begin arbitration; effectively avoiding the adjudication penalties. To rectify this situation, New South Wales required that all losers in adjudication must pay all awards to the plaintiff (in a 2002 amendment). Queensland implemented a similar provision in 2007. This helped to increase the overall effectiveness of adjudication being used to settle a variety of disputes, in the construction industry. Besides the obvious differences of regional autonomy, the Australian model differs from the UK model based on the overall days...
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