Read the document through to ensure it meets your needs and that you’ve provided all of the necessary information about the construction services. Ask a lawyer for advice if you have any questions.
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A Material Schedule must be attached to your completed Construction Contract before it is signed. These must be written by the parties (ie they are not created as a part of this Construction Contract template), as they will be very specifically tailored to a specific service provision relationship.
If you’re not sure what to write in your schedule, or how to set these out correctly, you can use our bespoke legal drafting service to ensure your schedules protect your business.
Schedules can be attached either by:
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inserting them into a downloaded Word Document version of your Construction Contract, or
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by attaching it in hard copy to the printed version of your Construction Contract
Under this Contract, the client will always be a consumer (ie a private individual who is not acting in the course of business), and the main contractor must be particularly careful to comply with all consumer law requirements. For example, certain key information must be provided to a consumer before a contract is formed between the parties.
This Construction Contract incorporates the general key information a business must provide when making consumer contracts. However, the main contractor should check whether they are required to provide any other necessary additional information, depending on their business’s unique services.
For more information, read Doing business with consumers, Consumer rights, Terms and conditions, and the FAQs for this document.
The main contractor and the client must both sign the Contract. If the main contractor is a company or a partnership, its representative (ie signatory) must sign.
The date of the Contract is the date on which the parties sign, if that is the same day. If they sign on different days, it is the day on which the last person signs.
You can sign your Construction Contract by either:
Signing online
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You can sign online using RocketSign.
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You can send an email request inviting another person (eg the client) to sign.
Signing in print
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Print two copies of the Construction Contract - one for the main contractor and one for the client.
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Sign and date both copies.
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Send both copies to the client and ask them to date and sign them before returning one copy to you. The client should keep the second copy for their records.
A copy of your Construction Contract will be stored automatically in your Rocket Lawyer account ‘Dashboard’.
You should also download and securely store a copy of your Construction Contract for your own records.
If you signed in print, each party should securely store their copy of the Contract that has been signed by all of the parties.
