New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DESIGN AND BUILDING PRACTITIONERS ACT 2020 - SECT 11

11 Registered design practitioners to be indemnified

(1) A registered design practitioner must not--

(a) provide a design compliance declaration or prepare a regulated design, or

(b) hold out that the practitioner is adequately insured with respect to the provision of the declaration or that work,

unless the practitioner is adequately insured with respect to the declaration and work.

: Maximum penalty--300 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 100 penalty units (in any other case).

(2) For the purposes of this section, a registered design practitioner is
"adequately insured" with respect to a declaration and work if the practitioner--

(a) is indemnified by insurance that complies with the regulations against any liability to which the practitioner may become subject as a result of providing the declaration or doing the work, or

(b) is part of some other arrangement approved by the regulations that provides indemnity against the liability.

(3) It is a condition of registration that a registered design practitioner must provide to the Secretary, in the time specified by the Secretary, information that the Secretary may require to satisfy the Secretary that the practitioner is adequately insured in accordance with this section.