This query relates to item 5.5 of the JCT Sub-Contract Particulars (DBSubA/2016).
Item 5.5 of the JCT Sub-Contract Particulars provide two options as follows:
• Where completion by Sections does not apply or, alternatively…
• Where completion by Sections does apply.
If the Main Contract is split into Sections but all of the Sub-Contract Works fall within one of those Main Contract Sections, how then should item 5.5 of the JCT Sub-Contract Particulars be completed? Is it:
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“where completion by Sections does not apply” x weeks (i.e. as the Sub-Contract Works themselves are not split into sections) or…
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Insert the Main Contract Section number and state the period for the Sub-Contract Works within that Section
As “Section” is defined in the JCT Conditions as “one of the Sections into which the Main Contract Works have been divided”, I presume that option 2) above is the correct answer (i.e. even if the Sub-Contract Works are not split into sections, when completing para 5.5 of the Sub-Contract Particulars, the ‘Section’ option is used where there are Main Contract Sections upstream).