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Residential Building Work Contracts and Dispute Resolution Act 2016
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8 Certain contracts taken to be one contract
(1) This section applies if a building contractor and an owner enter into 2 or more separate contracts that –
(a) could be the subject of a single contract that relates to the performance of residential building work by the building contractor; and
(b) if they were a single contract, would be a residential building work contract.
(2) The separate contracts are taken to be a single contract for which the contract price is the sum of the contract prices for the separate contracts.