South Australia
Building Work Contractors (Building Indemnity Insurance) Amendment Regulations 2025
under the Building Work Contractors Act 1995

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
Part 2—Amendment of Building Work Contractors Regulations 2011
3	Amendment of regulation 4—Definitions of building work etc (section 3 of Act)
4	Amendment of regulation 18—Limitations on insurers' liability (section 35 of Act)

Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Building Work Contractors (Building Indemnity Insurance) Amendment Regulations 2025.
2—Commencement
These regulations come into operation 4 months after the day on which they are made (see Legislative Instruments Act 1978 section 10AA).

Part 2—Amendment of Building Work Contractors Regulations 2011
3—Amendment of regulation 4—Definitions of building work etc (section 3 of Act)
	(1)	Regulation 4(4)(b)—delete paragraph (b) and substitute:
	(b)	in respect of a domestic building work contract made on or after 15 October 2001 but before the prescribed day—$12 000;
	(c)	in respect of a domestic building work contract made on or after the prescribed day—$20 000.
	(2)	Regulation 4(5)—delete "$12 000" and substitute:
$20 000
	(3)	Regulation 4—after subregulation (5) insert:
	(6)	In this regulation—
prescribed day means the day on which the Building Work Contractors (Building Indemnity Insurance) Amendment Regulations 2025 come into operation.
4—Amendment of regulation 18—Limitations on insurers' liability (section 35 of Act)
Regulation 18(1)(b)—delete "$80 000" and substitute:
$250 000
Made by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 10 July 2025
No 58 of 2025