Corporate Contractor Agreement Template (Australia)

For Australian businesses engaging incorporated contractors

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Use this template to:
  • Set clear terms for scope, deliverables, milestones and acceptance criteria;
  • Confirm independent contractor status and each party’s responsibilities;
  • Protect confidentiality, intellectual property, insurance and liability arrangements;
  • Record termination, handover, transition and dispute resolution processes.

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Contract details: commencement date, governing law, and principal notice details.

About this Document

Use this template if you:
  • Are engaging an incorporated contractor (a business operating through its own company) to deliver defined services or deliverables
  • Want scope, milestones and acceptance criteria set out clearly before work begins
  • Need written terms on fees, GST, invoicing and approved expenses
  • Want to manage key personnel, subcontracting and changes to the engagement
  • Need protections around confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, insurance and liability
It is suited to:
  • Australian businesses engaging a contractor that operates through its own company
  • Contractors working through a company who want a balanced, plain-English agreement
  • Engagements where the relationship is genuinely independent contracting with defined scope and outcomes
  • It is not designed for disguised employment, labour hire, building work or regulated professional services, which may need specialist advice
What this template covers:
  • Engagement and term, including non-exclusivity and standards of performance
  • Services, deliverables, milestones and acceptance criteria in dedicated schedules
  • Key personnel, subcontracting and each party’s responsibilities and dependencies
  • Change control, fees, invoicing, GST and approved expenses
  • Independent contractor status, compliance, licences and work health and safety obligations
  • Confidentiality, privacy and intellectual property ownership and licensing
  • Warranties, insurance, indemnities, liability caps, exclusions and proportionate responsibility
  • Suspension, termination, transition and dispute resolution, plus company and individual execution blocks
You receive an editable Word document with placeholders for party details, services, deliverables, milestones, fees, insurance and governing law, plus alternative execution blocks to suit each party. It is a practical, lawyer-drafted starting point for a company-to-company contractor relationship, not a substitute for tailored legal advice where the arrangement is unusual, regulated or high risk.

How To Use This Template

This template is a starting point, not a final document. It’s been drafted by Australian lawyers to be practical and flexible, but it still needs to be reviewed and tailored for your specific business, transaction and risk profile.

Before you use it, you should:

  • Complete all placeholders, bracketed items and optional fields;
  • Remove any drafting notes or clauses that aren’t relevant to your situation; and
  • Check that party names, entity details, dates, addresses, contact details and defined terms are accurate.

Make sure the template is consistent with your other documents and obligations – including any existing contracts, policies, procedures, website terms, privacy disclosures, regulatory requirements or internal governance documents. If anything conflicts, it should be resolved before you sign, issue, adopt or implement the document.

If you are using the template as an agreement, it should be reviewed and signed by all relevant parties in accordance with applicable law and your internal signing requirements. If you are using it as a policy, procedure, notice or compliance record, it should be approved and stored under your organisation’s normal document control processes.

This template is provided as general information only and is not legal advice. Complex, high‑value, highly regulated or cross‑border matters will usually require bespoke drafting. For anything outside a straightforward use case, we strongly recommend obtaining legal advice before relying on, signing or implementing this document.

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