Getting a Section 73 Compliance Certificate

How do I get a Section 73 Compliance Certificate?

Step 1. Engage a Water Servicing Coordinator for electronic processing

Select one or more Water Servicing Coordinators and discuss your project and potential costs with them. Engage one to act on your behalf to obtain your Section 73 Compliance Certificate.

Please provide your Coordinator with:

• The current application fee shown in Ancillary charges.
• A copy of the development/subdivision plan as approved or proposed - scale must be 1:500 or 1:1000, showing area of each lot.
• A copy of your Development Consent (You may apply for advice on what you need to do to obtain your Certificate before you have the Consent. However, an additional application fee will apply).

Note: Provision of the plan in electronic CAD format and the consent in electronic or scanned format may reduce costs.

If you are subdividing your land, please make sure that:

• Your subdivision plan also shows the total gross area and total net area, is coordinated to Map Grid of Australia (MGA) and includes the existing property information and Deposited Plan number(s) together with the Pre-allocated Plan Numbers (PPN) issued by the Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA).
• You provide your Coordinator with a copy of the LPMAs printed ‘Notice of Pre-allocation Plan Number Issue’.

To learn more about Pre-allocated Plan Numbers read Changes to subdivision plan requirements for new developments (PDF - 976KB) .

If you plan an unsubdivided dual occupancy, you should consider requirements for future subdivision. This can avoid additional costs such as moving newly laid services.

Step 2. Receive a Notice of Requirements

You will receive a Notice of Requirements from your Coordinator in which Sydney Water will specify what you need to do to obtain your certificate. The notice will be based on an assessment of your proposal and its impact on Sydney Water's systems. It will specify:

• works needed to ensure each lot in your development has a frontage to a water main and a connection point to a sewer main (private water/sewer service lines in easements or joint service arrangements are not acceptable).
• charges payable (see Step 3).
• any other requirements such as amplification or adjustment of the system or building over sewer protection.

If applying before receiving consent, an advice called a Feasibility Letter, will identify what to do if your application is approved.

Step 3. Pay charges and build works

Charges may include:

• developer charges.
• contract administration fees.
• reticulation recovery fees (your contribution towards reticulation works benefiting your development already provided by Sydney Water or another developer).

If works need to be built:

You must engage a licensed Coordinator to facilitate the design and construction of the works at your cost. At this point you may choose the Coordinator who lodged your application or you may select another coordinator to do this for you. You must sign the agreement covering the works included with your Notice and return both copies to Sydney Water through your Coordinator.

Your Coordinator then manages the works. Once works are completed satisfactorily, they are taken over as part of the Sydney Water system.

If works affect adjacent properties not owned by you, your Coordinator should negotiate access. You may need to pay compensation and/or look at ways to minimise impact. Allow considerable time for this process.

Step 4. Receive Section 73 Compliance Certificate

Once all requirements have been met, Sydney Water will issue a Section 73 Certificate to the Coordinator. This can then be provided to the consent authority.