Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Demolition contractors: public liability requirements in Australian Capital Territory

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

Data as at

Verified for Australian Capital Territory

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition was found. Insurance and indemnity appear nowhere in the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011, and the only mention in the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 runs the other way: section 272A bars a person from entering into a contract of insurance or other arrangement purporting to cover a monetary penalty under the Act. The professional indemnity requirements in the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Regulation 2004 attach to assessor and certifier classes, not to any demolition trade class. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: Not applicable. No demolition-specific insurance requirement was located in the work health and safety or construction occupations licensing instruments. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: The ACT does not license demolition as a trade the way New South Wales and Queensland do. Demolition work is governed by the general duties in the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the competency-based high risk work licence classes in schedule 3 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011. The word demolisher does not appear in the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Regulation 2004. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory 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.

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