Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Strata managers: professional indemnity requirements in Queensland

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

Data as at

Verified for Queensland

  • Licence liability condition: No. Indemnity returns zero across the entire Act. There is a trap here worth naming, because anyone searching this Act casually will fall into it: insurance appears dozens of times, and every one concerns the body corporate's own duty to insure the scheme — the insurance Part, the alternative insurance order machinery, the duty to ensure the building policy is in place, insurable interest, and cost recovery where required insurance is not taken out. None of it imposes any obligation on the manager. The only conduct instrument binding managers is the statutory code of conduct, covering honesty and fairness, undue influence, conflicts of duty or interest, competitive pricing of goods and services, and record-keeping. It contains no insurance requirement. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: None. There is no regulator holding a file, no renewal cycle and no licence to suspend. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: Body corporate managers are neither licensed nor registered in Queensland. The Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 defines the role functionally and the manager is engaged by the body corporate under a contract — there is no licence, no register and no approval. That is a sharper contrast with Western Australia than it first appears: WA managers are also unlicensed, but they are still subject to statutory professional indemnity, qualification and criminal record prerequisites. Queensland imposes no equivalent. QLD · effective 2026-08-25 Queensland 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.

What this cover costs

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