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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 Muswellbrook Shire Council: Verification/repair pass 1: confirmed night_cap and planning_approval rules against planning.nsw.gov.au (policy page + FAQ PDF); added registration, fire_safety and code_of_conduct rules plus fees[] and penalties[] entries, each independently sourced to planning.nsw.gov.au and nsw.gov.au (Fair Trading Code of Conduct), to meet the site's >=4-rules/>=2-sources publish gate. Attempted to resolve the exact STRA Area Map boundary and Muswellbrook's specific effective_from date via austlii and legislation.nsw.gov.au; both remained inaccessible to automated fetch (403 / JS-rendered SPA) and were carried forward as open items.
• 2026-07-24 Muswellbrook Shire Council: Verification/repair pass 2: opened legislation.nsw.gov.au (SEPP (Housing) 2021, epi-2021-0714) directly in an interactive browser, which the prior pass could not do via static fetch. Confirmed s112(3)(e) verbatim: the 180-day non-hosted cap applies to land in the Muswellbrook LGA shown on the official Muswellbrook Short-term Rental Accommodation Area Map, not the whole shire; updated night_cap source_url to the primary legislative instrument and strengthened its detail/status_summary accordingly. Located the NSW Planning Portal Spatial Viewer URL as the correct live link for the map itself and folded it into the planning_approval rule. Attempted to trace the map's/clause's insertion date via a related ArcGIS REST layer; inconclusive within budget, so effective_from remains null on night_cap. Investigated a third-party postcode list surfaced by search; rejected it as unreliable and left postcodes unchanged. Removed all em dashes from record text per house style.

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