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Building inspectors: professional indemnity requirements in Victoria

Cover for legal liability arising from professional advice or services, written on a claims-made basis.

Data as at

Verified for Victoria

  • Licence liability condition: Yes. A registered building practitioner must hold professional indemnity cover indemnifying them against civil liability for any claim first made against them during the period of insurance — a claims-made structure, which is why continuity of cover matters more here than in occurrence-based classes. VIC · effective 2026-08-24 Victoria Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: Unusually strict, and it runs to the client rather than the regulator: before taking a deposit or any money, the building practitioner must give the client BOTH a copy of the policy and a certificate of currency. Most jurisdictions ask for the certificate alone. VIC · effective 2026-08-24 Victoria Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: The Victorian building regulator, which registers building surveyors and building inspectors as building practitioners alongside quantity surveyors and engineers. VIC · effective 2026-08-24 Victoria 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 this cover costs

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