Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Surveyors: professional indemnity requirements in Northern Territory

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

Data as at

Verified for Northern Territory

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition. The word insurance appears nowhere in the Licensed Surveyors Act 1983, including the qualification for registration provision at section 25. The grounds for cancelling or suspending registration at section 33 are fraud, criminal conviction, unsoundness of mind, drunkenness, and inaccurate or negligent surveying — there is no insurance ground at all. NT · effective 2026-08-24 Northern Territory Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: None. There is no insurance requirement in the Licensed Surveyors Act 1983 for evidence to attach to. NT · effective 2026-08-24 Northern Territory Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: The Surveyors Board of the Northern Territory of Australia, established by section 8(1) of the Licensed Surveyors Act 1983, registers licensed surveyors. NT · effective 2026-08-24 Northern Territory 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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