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Veterinarians: professional indemnity requirements in Tasmania

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

Data as at

Verified for Tasmania

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition, and this is a full-instrument zero rather than a failure to find one. The Veterinary Surgeons Act 1987 runs to 104 pages and 120,252 characters with zero occurrences of insurance or indemnity, and the Veterinary Surgeons Regulations 2022 return zero as well. Section 18A, which is headed conditions of registration, deals only with interstate suspensions, cancellations and disciplinary conditions carried over under corresponding laws — there is no insurance limb. Section 18(3A) leaves the Veterinary Board of Tasmania a residual discretion to attach conditions, but nothing directs it at insurance. TAS · effective 2026-08-25 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: None, and the list is closed rather than merely silent. Regulation 7 of the Veterinary Surgeons Regulations 2022 prescribes exactly what an application must contain and be accompanied by: name, honorary title and residential address, proposed business address if known, speciality if any, a certified copy of qualifications and proof of identity. Qualifications and identity only. No certificate of currency at application, renewal or on request. TAS · effective 2026-08-25 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: The Veterinary Board of Tasmania, under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1987 (Tas). Veterinarians are NOT part of the Ahpra national scheme despite being health practitioners — every state and territory registers them separately under its own Act, so a vet moving interstate deals with a different board each time. TAS · effective 2026-08-24 Tasmania 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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