MOC — Legislation, Regulators & Evidence
Map of Content — the legal instruments, institutions and evidence sources behind the vault.
Legislation & policy
- Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 — the UK origin of the prompt-payment/adjudication model
- UK Late Payment Reform 2026 — proposes to ban retention withholding
- Australia Security of Payment Acts — the state/territory reference model
- Ontario Construction Act — first Canadian prompt-payment regime
- EU Late Payment Directive — EU baseline; stricter Regulation blocked in 2025
- CIPAA 2012 — Malaysia’s security-of-payment statute
- MSMED Act 2006 — India’s de facto delayed-payment remedy
- New Zealand Construction Contracts Act — adjudication + retention-trust regime
- CIDB Prompt Payment Regulations — South Africa’s long-stalled draft
Regulators & bodies
- Construction Industry Development Board — South Africa’s statutory regulator
- MSME Facilitation Council — India’s statutory delayed-payment forum
- British Property Federation — client-side voice; opposes retention abolition
- European Builders Confederation — EU construction-SME voice
- American Subcontractors Association — US subcontractor advocacy body
Court cases
- Peacock Construction Co v Modern Air Conditioning — US majority rule on pay-when-paid clauses
- Jack-In Pile v Bauer — Malaysian Federal Court on CIPAA’s scope
Datasets & evidence
- EU Payment Observatory — EU government payment-behaviour monitor
- UK Construction Insolvency Statistics — official UK insolvency data
- Rabbet Construction Payments Report — US vendor survey (90-day cycle, $280bn)
- Billd National Subcontractor Market Report — US subcontractor survey
Contractor collapses (insolvency case studies)
- Carillion — UK, 2018; ~£2bn owed to 30,000 firms
- ISG Ltd — UK, 2024; biggest collapse since Carillion
- Mainzeal — New Zealand, 2013; triggered NZ retention reform
Key relations
UK Late Payment Reform 2026 [opposes] Construction Retention Payments Australia Security of Payment Acts [opposes] Pay-When-Paid Clauses Carillion [precedes] UK Late Payment Reform 2026 EU Payment Observatory [provides_evidence_for] EU Late Payment Directive