Plumbers: public liability requirements in Tasmania

Verified for Tasmania

• Licence liability condition: A Tasmanian plumbing contractor's licence requires insurance in the trading name of the business covering personal injury and property damage of at least $5 million for any one occurrence for public liability, and in the annual aggregate for products liability. TAS · effective 2026-08-13 Consumer, Building and Occupational Services Tasmania · 2026-08-13
• Licence evidence required: A certificate of currency for insurance must be uploaded with a plumbing contractor licence application and again at renewal. Invoices, policy schedules and letters of eligibility are not accepted. TAS · effective 2026-08-13 Consumer, Building and Occupational Services Tasmania · 2026-08-13
• Licensing body: The Administrator of Occupational Licensing, through Consumer, Building and Occupational Services, issues Tasmanian plumbing licences under the Occupational Licensing Act 2005. The classes are practitioner, contractor and provisional. TAS · effective 2018-05-08 Consumer, Building and Occupational Services Tasmania · 2026-08-13

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 the limit figure on a certificate means
• Cover for the principal for your work
• When a certificate falls short of the contract

What this cover costs

This site publishes no cost benchmark for this cover. A benchmark needs a real sample of documents, and none is published until the sample is large enough to compute a median honestly. A benchmark from a handful of policies is a guess with a decimal point.

Sources

• Building Commission NSW — Building Commission NSW — building and trade licences
• Building and Plumbing Commission — Building and Plumbing Commission (Victoria)
• WorkSafe Queensland — WorkSafe Queensland — regulator portal (WHSQ, Electrical Safety Office, WCRS)
• Consumer Protection WA — Consumer Protection, Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety (WA)
• Consumer and Business Services SA — Consumer and Business Services (South Australia)
• Consumer, Building and Occupational Services Tasmania — CBOS Tasmania — occupational licensing
• ACT Construction Occupations Registrar — ACT construction occupations licensing
• NT Building Practitioners Board — Northern Territory Building Practitioners Board — registration