Stay informed of end of financial year delays.
Occasionally, authorities will cease issuing certificates while they re-value the properties in their municipalities and release new fees. This page will provide updates on certificate delays as they become available.
| State | Council | Advice |
| VIC | City of Ballarat |
In preparation for the End of Financial Year system closures, I am writing to advise that any Land Information Certificates applications received after 5.00pm Wednesday 24th June may not be processed due to End of Financial Year System Processes. Therefor please ensure all applications have been submitted and pending further information requests have been completed. Any applications received after this time will be held until the new Rates have been struck and uploaded. This will be approximately the 3rd week in July.
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| VIC | East Gippsland Shire Council | Limited Land Information Certificates can be issued from 1 July 2026 to 3 July 2026, business as usual will continue from 6 July 2026. |
| QLD | Noosa | The proposed budget for FY 26/27 will be adopted on 1 July 2026. Please note that, as before, any settlements from July 2026 should be held back until the new figures are available. As a reminder, any searches submitted now will only show the current rating period figures (1 January 2026 to 30 June 2026). The new figures are expected to be available in our system on Monday, 6 July 2026. Please note: If you have already submitted a search and the settlement date falls in the next rating period, you will need to submit another application in July 2026 if you require the new rating period figures. |
| VIC | Kingston Council | Kingston Council will not be generating any Land Information Certificates from 22/06/2026 – 03/07/26 inclusive due to the new financial year. Rate charges for 2026/2027 will not be generated at that stage. Any applications made this late into the financial year for creation of Section 32s (with sale/auction dates post 30/06/25) will need a new certificate to reflect the new year’s rate financials. Any settlements between 22/06/2026 – 03/07/26 it is presumed the conveyancers will have a Land Information Certificate and can still ring on the morning/afternoon before settlement to confirm any payments that have been made so they can prepare their Statement of Adjustments. Please refrain from applying for an urgent Land Information Certificate during this time. This service is not offered 22/06/26 to 03/07/26 inclusive. Land Information Certificate generation will begin again 06/07/25 unless advised. Please inform your clients as they apply. The Rates Admin team can only give rates figures to conveyancers who have an active Land Information Certificate during the above dates. If an application has been made during these dates they will receive their certificate after generation commences 06/07/25. |
| VIC | Greater Dandenong | Due to end of financial year processing and raising the rates and charges for the 2026/2027 rating period, Land Information Certificate application will be unavailable from 26th June 2026. For any urgent settlement requirements during this period, please contact Customer Service on 8571 1000 and ask for the Rates Department. |
| NSW | Richmond Valley Council |
Please be aware that due to end of year financial processing Council will be unable to process 603 Certificates for a period of time. Any 603 Certificate applications received up to 10am June 30th will be issued before COB June 30th & will report on charges for the 2025/2026 financial year. Should you require details on the 2026/2027 charges please hold your applications until after June 30th. Council will recommence processing 603 Certificates after the rates charges for the 2026/2027 have been raised. The updating & processing of charges for the new year normally takes approximately two weeks. During this period, you may still lodge an application for a 603 Certificate however it will not be processed until completion of the raising of the 2026/2027 levy. Once an application has been received verbal updates for the new year can be obtained from Council’s Revenue staff. Copies of Council’s updated Property Enquiry & Section 603 Certificate request forms with new fee amounts for the 2026/2027 financial year will be forwarded to your office once finalised. These forms will also be available on Council’s website. |
| VIC | Casey | LIC processing will be paused from 5.00 pm on Monday 29 June 2026 and is expected to resume on Wednesday 15 July 2026. If you have settlements scheduled between 1 July and 14 July 2026, it may be necessary to make reasonable assumptions regarding the 2026/27 Council rates, based on the current 2025/26 charges. To minimise disruption, we request that all LIC applications for these properties are submitted prior to close of business on Monday 29 June 2026. |
| QLD | Logan | Please be advised that processing of the July to September 2026 rates levy will take place from 1 July to 6 July 2026, with the updated levy information available in our system from 7 July 2026. During this period, our capacity to process property search requests will be limited. Accordingly, any requests with a settlement date on or after 7 July 2026 will be held and processed once the new levy has been applied. For requests with a settlement date prior to 7 July 2026, we kindly ask that requests be submitted at your earliest convenience to ensure they can be actioned prior to 1 July 2026. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office.
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| NSW | Maitland City Council | No Section 603 certificates will be issued from 1 July 2026 until the 2026/2027 rates levy has been processed. All Section 603 Applications that are ordered during this time will be issued as soon as possible and will include the 2026/2027 rates levy. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please don’t hesitate to contact the Revenue Team on 02 4934 9700. |
| VIC | City of Melbourne | As in previous years, we will be pausing LIC processing for the final week of June. We will stop issuing certificates from 24/06/26 and resume once 2026-27 rates are updated in our system. Usually this is within the first couple of days of July, but can occasionally take longer. We will be running a priority queue for urgent LICs over this period. Please contact us at rates@melbourne.vic.gov.au or 03 9658 9759 to advise of any urgent certificates and we will action those as soon as possible once the updated rates are available. And if there are any last minute requests for properties settling before 30 June, please let us know and we can action those during the shutdown – please be sure to note that they don’t require 2026-27 rates so they don’t end up in the other queue. |
| NSW | Central Coast Council | Council’s Property and Payments online portal will be unavailable from 12noon on Tuesday, 30 June until 9am on Friday 3 July 2026. This planned annual outage allows for critical end of financial year system updates to occur. Alternate payment methods are available during this period. |
| NSW | City of Parramatta | Online Services will be unavailable from 5:00pm 29 June 2026 to 8:30am 1 July 2026 due to system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. |
| VIC | Warrnambool City Council | As we are approaching the End of Financial Year, this email is to advise you of our process of Land Information Certificates during this time. We are going to stop issuing LIC’s within the first 2 weeks of July, being the 1st – 14th of July 2026. This will enable us time to get the 2026/27 Rates & Charges loaded into our system. We are currently issuing Certificates until 30th of June 2026 with an Estimated Total 2026/27 Rates & Charges on the second page of the certificate, for any properties settling from 1 July 2026 onwards. If you have any properties settling in the first 2 weeks of July, it would be strongly advised you apply for your certificates as soon as possible so that we can include this information for you. |