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#### 37 Beneficiaries
37 Beneficiaries
> > (1) An insurance contract must provide that the beneficiaries under the contract are—
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> > > (a) a person on whose behalf residential building work covered by the contract is done or is to be done, or
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> > > (b) a person who is a purchaser of land on which work required by Part 6 of the Act to be insured, and covered by the contract, is done, or
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> > > (c) a successor in title to any person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).
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> > (2) The following persons are not required to be beneficiaries under an insurance contract—
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> > > (a) a developer who does residential building work,
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> > > (b) a person who does residential building work other than under a contract,
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> > > (c) a holder of a contractor licence who carried out residential building work,
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> > > (d) related companies, within the meaning of section 50 of the [Corporations Act 2001](http://www.legislation.gov.au/) of the Commonwealth, to any corporate person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),
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> > > (e) a body corporate that is related, within the meaning of section 50 of the [Corporations Act 2001](http://www.legislation.gov.au/) of the Commonwealth, to any corporate person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),
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> > > (f) a body corporate that is a related party, within the meaning of section 228 of the [Corporations Act 2001](http://www.legislation.gov.au/) of the Commonwealth, of any corporate person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).
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> > (3) Nothing in this clause prevents a person referred to in subclause (2) from being a beneficiary under an insurance contract.
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> > (4) For the purposes of this clause, the owner or owners of common property the subject of work referred to in Part 6 of the Act are taken to be purchasers of the land on which the common property is situated.