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Surveyors: professional indemnity requirements in Australian Capital Territory

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

Data as at

Verified for Australian Capital Territory

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition attaches to registration as a surveyor in the ACT. The words insurance and indemnity appear nowhere in the Surveyors Act 2007. The Act's only express registration condition, at section 9, is that the surveyor undertakes continuing professional development. The professional indemnity requirements that do exist in ACT construction licensing sit in the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Regulation 2004 and attach to building surveyors, assessors and certifiers — a different scheme and a different occupation. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: None. There is no insurance requirement in the Surveyors Act 2007 for evidence to attach to. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: Land surveyors are registered under the Surveyors Act 2007, administered through the Surveyor-General. This is the cadastral surveying register, and is separate from the building surveyor, building assessor and certifier classes licensed under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004. ACT · effective 2026-08-24 Australian Capital Territory 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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