Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act s. 14

(1) When work is done or material is furnished in respect of
land in which a married person or an adult interdependent partner
has an estate or interest, if the work is done or the material is
furnished with the privity of the spouse of the married person or the
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other adult interdependent partner then, for the purposes of this
Act, the spouse or other adult interdependent partner is
conclusively presumed to be acting as the agent of the married
person or the adult interdependent partner as well as for himself or
herself.
(2) The presumption arising under subsection (1) applies only in
respect of that part of the work done or portion of the materials
furnished before the person doing the work or furnishing the
materials has had actual notice that the spouse or the other adult
interdependent partner is not the agent of the married person or the
adult interdependent partner who has an estate or interest in the
land.
RSA 2000 cB-7 s14;2002 cA-4.5 s21

SS Houses with a Secondary Suite

14 Land owned by married person or adult interdependent partner