Weekly News Update 25.2.2021
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Article 1: All developers to provide fibre-ready facilities for all new building lots and units The Telecommunications Amendment (Infrastructure in New Developments) Act 2021 has received Royal Asset and came into effect on 17 February 2021. The Act amends Part 20A of the Telecommunications Act 1997 and requires that all developers ensure that all building lots or units have fibre-ready facilities
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Weekly News Update 18.2.2021
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Article 1: Don’t ignore a Subscriber Compliance audit request The Registrar General has published a note on the ORG website cautioning Subscribers against ignoring an audit request. The email will come from the email address [email protected] and you should also add this email address to your safe senders / exceptions list to ensure that it doesn’t
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Weekly News Update 11.2.2021
Friday, 12 February 2021
Article 1: New single- party eLease available From a new single-party electronic lease (eLease) dealing form is available through Property Exchange Australia (PEXA). The new version of the eLease will replace the existing two-party eLease. Read more Article 2: Job Making Hiring Scheme The JobMaker Hiring Credit scheme is an incentive for businesses to employ additional young
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Weekly News Update 4.2.2021
Tuesday, 09 February 2021
Article 1: AICNSW Stakeholder Engagement Update AICNSW regularly attends Stakeholder update sessions with various government departments. Details on the most recent sessions with NSW Treasury and ORG / NSWLRS can be found here. Article 2: Real Property Amendment (Certificates of Title Bill 2020) ORG has released the draft exposure Bill for public consultation The purpose of
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Weekly News Update 28.1.2021
Friday, 29 January 2021
Article 1: Do I need a COVID QR code? At present QR codes are only mandatory for certain businesses. While office based businesses are currently not included in this list, given the nature of the virus, this could change overnight. To be registered, a business must have an appropriate a COVID Safe Plan and register with
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Weekly News Update 21.1.2021
Friday, 22 January 2021
Article 1: Conveyancing Law and Practice Course Macquarie University’s Conveyancing Law and Practice Course registration for Session 1 2021 closes on 22 January. Study session starts 22nd February. Register here. Article 2: 99% of dealings now available for electronic lodgment ORG has announced that another twenty-four Real Property Act dealings are available for lodgment as
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Weekly News Update 14.1.2021
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Article 1: Conveyancing Law and Practice Course Macquarie University’s Conveyancing Law and Practice Course registration for Session 1 2021 closes on 22 January. Study session starts 22nd February. Register here. Article 2: NSW Government announces next step towards 100% electronic lodgment The NSW Government is seeking feedback on the Exposure Draft of the Real Property
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2020: A year we will all remember!
Monday, 21 December 2020
Well, if you were to try and pen a summary of the year that was, you could just use one word: bizarre. Personally, I prefer that term to the word most often used during 2020 – “unprecedented”. As we all know, since March 2020 the world has been turned upside down, and I don’t want
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More Changes for Insurance in Super
Friday, 20 March 2020
More changes are coming for the default insurance cover of young super fund members and members with low super balances under new laws passed by the Federal Parliament in September 2019. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members’ Interests First) Act 20191 means that as of 1 April 2020: On joining a super fund, auto- matic
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How to Achieve Compliance in an eConveyancing Audit
Friday, 20 March 2020
As conveyancers and lawyers across NSW find themselves subject to random eConveyancing audits, we help explore some of the issues and what you can do to avoid them. The top two areas where practitioners struggle to meet their regulatory obligations are when filling out the Client Authorisation Form and verifying a client’s identity. As of
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