Architects: public liability requirements in Western Australia

Verified for Western Australia

• Licence liability condition: Yes, but for a NARROW class of registrant and it should not be read more widely. A FOREIGN CORPORATION carrying on business as an architect must at all times have and maintain a policy of professional indemnity insurance indemnifying it against liability for negligence or misfeasance in respect of work done in the course of the practice of architecture, and the Board may stipulate a limit of not less than $200,000. Whether an equivalent condition applies to individual registered architects in WA was not established. WA · effective 2026-08-24 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
• Licence evidence required: For a foreign corporation, the policy must be lodged with the Registrar before registration and maintained at all times. WA · effective 2026-08-24 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
• Licensing body: The Architects Board of Western Australia, under the Architects Act 1921 (WA). WA · effective 2026-08-24 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

• What the limit figure on a certificate means
• Cover for the principal for your work
• When a certificate falls short of the contract

What this cover costs

This site publishes no cost benchmark for this cover. A benchmark needs a real sample of documents, and none is published until the sample is large enough to compute a median honestly. A benchmark from a handful of policies is a guess with a decimal point.

Sources

• NSW Architects Registration Board — NSW Architects Registration Board — professional indemnity insurance
• Victoria Government — Victoria — consolidated legislation
• Queensland Government — Queensland — consolidated legislation
• Western Australia Government — Western Australia — consolidated legislation
• South Australia Government — South Australia — consolidated legislation
• Tasmania Government — Tasmania — consolidated legislation
• Australian Capital Territory Government — Australian Capital Territory — consolidated legislation
• Northern Territory Government — Northern Territory — consolidated legislation