Surveyors: public liability requirements in Western Australia

Verified for Western Australia

• Licence liability condition: Yes, expressed as a power to refuse rather than as a flat requirement: the Board may refuse to renew a practising certificate except to a licensed surveyor who satisfies the Board that they hold a valid current certificate of insurance for the category of practice they intend to engage in. The cover must match the CATEGORY of practice, not merely exist. WA · effective 1990-07-01 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
• Licence evidence required: A valid current certificate of insurance, at practising certificate renewal, matched to the category of practice. WA · effective 1990-07-01 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
• Licensing body: The Land Surveyors Licensing Board, under the Licensed Surveyors Act 1909 (WA) and the Licensed Surveyors (Licensing and Registration) Regulations 1990 (WA). WA · effective 1990-07-01 Western 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.

• 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

• Board of Surveying and Spatial Information NSW — BOSSI — surveyor registration
• Victoria Government — Victoria — consolidated legislation
• Queensland Government — Queensland — consolidated legislation
• Western Australia Government — Western Australia — consolidated legislation
• South Australia Government — South Australia — consolidated legislation
• Tasmania Government — Tasmania — consolidated legislation
• Australian Capital Territory Government — Australian Capital Territory — consolidated legislation
• Northern Territory Government — Northern Territory — consolidated legislation