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Fire protection technicians: public liability requirements in New South Wales

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

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  • Licence liability condition: It depends which stream you are in, and the answer differs. A registered certifier under the Building and Development Certifiers Act 2018 must not carry out certification work, or hold out as adequately insured, unless adequately insured. An accredited practitioner (fire safety) is not caught by that duty: the Act's only insurance hook in the accreditation stream lets the Secretary's approval guidelines address the insurance an accreditation authority itself must hold. Any practitioner-level requirement therefore comes from the approved scheme rather than the statute, and the scheme document was not retrieved. Separately, fire safety engineering and the four fire systems design classes are registered under the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 and do carry the professional indemnity duty that applies to every registered design practitioner. NSW · effective 2026-08-25 New South Wales Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: Not established at the accredited practitioner level — the requirement, if any, sits in the approval guidelines and the approved scheme, neither of which was retrieved. For a registered certifier it is a condition of registration to supply insurance information to the Secretary on demand, and no longer being covered is among the events triggering variation, suspension or cancellation and a seven day notification duty. NSW · effective 2026-08-25 New South Wales Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: New South Wales fire safety accreditation is statutory, not merely industry-run, and the distinction is finer than it first looks. The operative role is accredited practitioner (fire safety), defined as the holder of an accreditation under the Building and Development Certifiers Act 2018 authorising them to exercise those functions. The accreditation itself is granted not by the regulator but by an accreditation authority — a body corporate approved by the Secretary to run an approved accreditation scheme. So the legal effect comes from the Act while the accrediting body is an approved private one. The role is load-bearing: a final fire safety certificate certifies that each essential fire safety measure has been assessed by an accredited practitioner (fire safety), and performance solution reports for fire safety requirements must be prepared by one. NSW · effective 2026-08-25 New South Wales 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.

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