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Registered certifier (NSW) (Certifier)

Issues complying development, construction and occupation certificates

A private practitioner registered under the Building and Development Certifiers Act 2018 who can issue certain certificates in place of council.

Responsibilities

Operates under

The private certifier is the single most important institution for anyone studying process time in NSW, because it is the mechanism by which the state converted a queue into a market. Where a step can be performed by any of many registered practitioners rather than by one council with a backlog, the scheduling component of delay largely disappears.

It is also the clearest illustration of why this database refuses to treat "fewer steps" as automatically better. The certifier model has been the subject of sustained criticism about conflicts of interest and building quality. Both things are true at once: it removed weeks of queueing, and it created a supervision problem. Any honest reform page has to hold both.

Where this body appears in a process

Every point at which Registered certifier (NSW) can hold something up, and why.

ProcessStepWhy it waitsClockTypical
Build and open a residential aged care home — New South Wales Construction certificate certification assessment — 60
Build and open a residential aged care home — New South Wales Occupation certificate certification assessment — 30
Build a multi storey apartment building via the Housing Delivery Authority — New South Wales Obtain the construction certificate certification assessment — 75
Build a multi storey apartment building via the Housing Delivery Authority — New South Wales Lodge regulated designs and compliance declarations certification applicant — 30
Build a multi storey apartment building via the Housing Delivery Authority — New South Wales Mandatory inspections during construction inspection scheduling — 25
Build a multi storey apartment building via the Housing Delivery Authority — New South Wales Obtain the occupation certificate certification assessment — 45
Build a multi storey apartment building — New South Wales Obtain the construction certificate certification assessment — 75
Build a multi storey apartment building — New South Wales Lodge regulated designs and compliance declarations certification applicant — 30
Build a multi storey apartment building — New South Wales Mandatory inspections during construction inspection scheduling — 25
Build a multi storey apartment building — New South Wales Obtain the occupation certificate certification assessment — 45
Buy land and build a single storey house — New South Wales Obtain the construction certificate certification assessment — 21
Buy land and build a single storey house — New South Wales Mandatory inspections during construction inspection scheduling — 5
Buy land and build a single storey house — New South Wales Obtain the occupation certificate certification assessment — 14
Open a long day care centre — New South Wales Construction certificate certification assessment — 45
Open a long day care centre — New South Wales Occupation certificate certification assessment — 30
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Engage a registered certifier application applicant — 3
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Notice to neighbours before work starts notification statutory 7 7
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Assessment against the codes and issue of the certificate certification assessment 20 24
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Appoint principal certifier application applicant — 2
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Mandatory critical stage inspections inspection scheduling — 5
Build a single house — NSW, complying development certificate Occupation certificate certification assessment — 10
Build a single house — NSW, merit-assessed development application Construction certificate certification assessment — 21
Build a single house — NSW, merit-assessed development application Appoint principal certifier application applicant — 3
Build a single house — NSW, merit-assessed development application Mandatory critical stage inspections inspection scheduling — 5
Build a single house — NSW, merit-assessed development application Occupation certificate certification assessment — 14
Build a block of townhouses — New South Wales Obtain the construction certificate certification assessment — 40
Build a block of townhouses — New South Wales Mandatory inspections during construction inspection scheduling — 12
Build a block of townhouses — New South Wales Obtain the occupation certificate certification assessment — 25

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