Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Conveyancers: public liability requirements in Queensland

Cover for legal liability to third parties for personal injury or property damage arising from business activities.

Data as at

Verified for Queensland

  • Licence liability condition: There is no conveyancer licence for a condition to attach to, but the person actually doing the work carries compulsory cover, and that is the substantive answer for a Queensland consumer. Section 353 of the Legal Profession Act 2007 bars a regulatory authority from granting or renewing a practising certificate unless satisfied the lawyer will be covered by complying professional indemnity insurance for its currency, with the requirements set by regulation. Section 354 makes it continuing, and criminally so: a practitioner must not engage in legal practice, or represent that they are entitled to, unless they comply. The prescribing regulation was not retrieved, so no amount is recorded here. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: For the solicitor doing the work, satisfaction of the regulator at grant and at each renewal of the practising certificate, plus a continuing obligation. Lapse does not automatically suspend the certificate; instead practising while uninsured is an offence carrying a substantial penalty or imprisonment. That is a different mechanism from Western Australia, where a settlement agent who lets cover lapse is simply deemed not to hold their certificate. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: There is no conveyancer licence in Queensland. Section 24 of the Property Occupations Act 2014 is an exhaustive statement of what the chief executive may issue — an auctioneer licence, a real estate agent licence and a resident letting agent licence — and the word conveyancing does not appear anywhere in the Act. The work is done by Australian legal practitioners: section 24 of the Legal Profession Act 2007 bars a person from engaging in legal practice unless they are one. Be precise about the mechanism, though: conveyancing is not reserved by name in that Act either. It is captured because it constitutes legal practice. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland 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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