Singapore legislation
Clause 10
of Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Bill
Clause 10
Payment claims
(1)
A claimant may serve one payment claim in respect of a progress payment on —
one or more other persons who, under the contract concerned, is or may be liable to make the payment; or
such other person as specified in or identified in accordance with the terms of the contract for this purpose.
(2)
A payment claim shall be served —
at such time as specified in or determined in accordance with the terms of the contract; or
where the contract does not contain such provision, at such time as may be prescribed.
(3)
A payment claim —
shall state the claimed amount, calculated by reference to the period to which the payment claim relates; and
shall be made in such form and manner, and contain such other information or be accompanied by such documents, as may be prescribed.
(4)
Nothing in subsection (1) shall prevent the claimant from including, in a payment claim in which a respondent is named, an amount that was the subject of a previous payment claim served in relation to the same contract which has not been paid by the respondent if, and only if, the first-mentioned payment claim is served within 6 years after the construction work to which the amount in the second-mentioned payment claim relates was last carried out, or the goods or services to which the amount in the second-mentioned payment claim relates were last supplied, as the case may be.