Building inspectors: professional indemnity requirements in Tasmania

Verified for Tasmania

• Licence liability condition: Yes — professional indemnity insurance is listed among the minimum requirements for a building surveyor licence, alongside the qualification. No minimum amount was located and none is stated here. TAS · effective 2026-08-24 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
• Licence evidence required: Not established from the published requirements beyond the fact that cover must be held. TAS · effective 2026-08-24 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
• Licensing body: Consumer, Building and Occupational Services, which licenses building surveyors as building services providers. TAS · effective 2026-08-24 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25

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 Government — NSW — building and development certifiers
• 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