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If you cannot view this email correctly, please click here to view it online. Construction Act to be amendedToday Gordon Brown announced that the Construction Act is to be amended during the next parliamentary session. The Construction Act (with the full name Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act) celebrated its tenth birthday a fortnight ago. The new legislation will fall within a Bill covering a medley of other matters as is clear from its title in which “Construction” does not even figure: the Community empowerment, housing and economic regeneration bill. The Bill is expected to adopt the proposals made in the government’s second consultation paper of June 2007. Key proposals then included:
A table summarising the June 2007 proposals and, just as importantly, the areas in which action is not proposed (such as extending the Act to PFI/PPP project agreements or excluding PFI/PPP sub-contracts) is included here (at pages 4 to 7). We will report again once the Bill is published. However, the industry may not know before next year how the final Act, once it has gone through parliament, will look. For further information, please contact:
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