Section 83 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (6) the following subsections:

(7)  The council may require a final plan of subdivision to note, in respect of a block, that the council has been advised by a regulated entity, within the meaning of the Water and Sewerage Industry Act 2008 , that the entity cannot or will not –

(a) provide a supply of water to the block; or

(b) provide means of sewerage for all or some specified kind of effluent from the block.

(8)  A notification under subsection (7) is to be treated as if it created an easement for the benefit of the regulated entity and may be destroyed wholly or in part by an instrument in the nature of a release of the block by the regulated entity.