Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Funeral directors: professional indemnity requirements in South Australia

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

Data as at

Verified for South Australia

  • Licence liability condition: Not applicable. With no funeral director licence in South Australia there is no licence for an insurance condition to attach to. Insurance appears once in the Burial and Cremation Act 2013 and on an unrelated point: a disqualifying pecuniary interest in a person's death under a policy of life insurance or superannuation. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: Not applicable. No funeral director licence exists in South Australia. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: Funeral directing is not a licensed occupation in South Australia. The Burial and Cremation Act 2013 defines a funeral director as a person who carries on the business of arranging for the disposal of human remains, and imposes conduct and notification duties, but the words licence, licensing and licensed do not appear in the Act at all. There is no licensing regime to enter. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia 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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