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Consulting engineers: public liability requirements in Tasmania

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

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Verified for Tasmania

  • Licence liability condition: Yes, but Tasmania puts the number somewhere almost nobody looks. Section 27(1) of the Occupational Licensing Act 2005 provides that the Administrator may, by notice published in the Gazette, require licence holders to be covered by insurance of a type and to an amount specified in the notice. The requirement is offence-backed: section 29(3A) bars a building services provider from carrying out building services work, or allowing it under their licence, without the section 27 cover. The type and amount live in that Gazette notice rather than in the Act, the Regulations or the Determination — which is why a figure cannot be quoted here. The Act itself never distinguishes professional indemnity from public liability; the word indemnity appears zero times across its 183 pages. TAS · effective 2026-08-25 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: Production on request, not a gate at the counter. Section 29(5) requires a contractor or building services provider to produce a certificate of currency or other evidence of the required cover on request by an owner or occupier of the land the work is carried out on. The Building Services Work Regulations 2016 contain no issue or renewal insurance gate — a notable contrast with electrical work, where regulation 9(1) blocks issue or renewal unless the Administrator is satisfied a current policy is held and its term extends into the licence period. There is no automatic suspension on lapse either: the word lapse appears zero times in the Act, and insurance lapse is not among the section 46 cancellation grounds. Enforcement runs through the section 29 offences instead. TAS · effective 2026-08-25 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: Tasmania has no standalone engineers registration Act. Engineers are licensed as building services providers under the Occupational Licensing Act 2005, whose Schedule 2 Part 4 covers the design of premises, buildings, building work, temporary structures, plumbing work or plumbing installations, and the inspection, testing, assessment and certification of the same. Licence classes are set by the Occupational Licensing (Building Services Work) Determination. TAS · effective 2026-08-25 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 this cover costs

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