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Recently changed rules

• 2027-07-01 Australian Capital Territory: Legislated levy rate increase from 5% to 7.5% takes effect.
• 2027-07-01 Canberra: ACT STRA levy rate is legislated to increase from 5% to 7.5% of total booking amount. Confirmed directly against primary source.
• 2027-01-01 Queensland: Final deadline for all existing Queensland dwellings (including those used for short-term letting) to have interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms installed in every bedroom, connecting hallway, and storey.
• 2026-07-24 Australian Capital Territory: Verification pass: confirmed the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Levy Act 2025's penalty provisions directly from its full legislative text (s16 offence for failure to register, max 250 penalty units; penalty unit = $160/$810). Re-checked night_cap and planning_approval flags, both remain unresolved after further searches and are kept at low confidence, excluded from status_summary as settled fact.
• 2026-07-24 Ballina Shire Council: Verification re-pass: resolved effective_from date for the 180-day cap (2021-11-01), reconfirmed the 'Council has chosen to adopt 180 days' verbatim quote via a successful rendered-browser fetch of Council's page, added three new rule entries (council_role, strata_oc, code_of_conduct) mined from previously-unread accordion sections to clear the record's structural rule-count gap, and confirmed postcode 2479 (Brooklet) belongs to Ballina Shire via Wikipedia. Rates/DCP question remains unresolved (no primary source found either way).
• 2026-07-24 City of Cessnock (Hunter Valley): Re-verification pass: (1) confirmed NSW STRA Register fee ($65 initial / $25 annual renewal) via direct fetch of planning.nsw.gov.au and restored it to the 'other' rule's detail text with a proper source citation (previously removed for lack of verification); (2) re-confirmed night_cap and planning_approval (LEP cl 5.4, 3-bedroom cap) facts against primary sources, no changes needed; (3) made a fourth attempt to resolve zone-by-zone (RU2/RU3/RU4/RU5/C2/C3/C4) permissibility for tourist/farm-stay accommodation, still unresolved due to persistent 403s on legislation.nsw.gov.au and tooling-level domain blocks on austlii and council-hosted PDFs; left at low confidence, excluded from status_summary, documented in review_notes for human follow-up (council phone 02 4993 4100).
• 2026-07-24 City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters:
• 2026-07-24 Northern Territory: Verification pass: confirmed NT penalty-unit value ($189, FY2025-26) via agd.nt.gov.au and added indicative AUD conversions of the Planning Act s75 penalty figures; replaced the generic NT Planning Scheme overview-page citation on the planning_approval rule with the specific Schedule 2 (Definitions) and Part 4 (Zones and Assessment Tables) documents and confirmed the primary-text 'serviced apartments' definition; replaced the levy_tax rule's citation with the correctly-targeted Territory Revenue Office page. Re-attempted fetches of nt.gov.au, treasury.nt.gov.au, agd.nt.gov.au, consumeraffairs.nt.gov.au and dli.nt.gov.au, all returned HTTP 403 again, confirming site-wide bot-blocking rather than a page-specific issue. Corroborated (but did not primary-source-confirm) the registration/night-cap/levy/code-of-conduct absence claims via fresh WebSearch, including two independent Australia-wide STR-regulation trackers; confidence levels on those claims held at medium/low rather than upgraded.

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