A New Tax System (Indirect Tax and Consequential Amendments) Act 1999 (176 of 1999)

Schedule 1   Indirect Tax Acts

Part 1   Amendment of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

151   Section 195-1 (definition of new residential premises )

Repeal the definition, substitute:

new residential premises means *residential premises that:

(a) have not previously been sold as residential premises and have not previously been the subject of a *long-term lease; or

(b) have been created through *substantial renovations of a building; or

(c) have been built, or contain a building that has been built, to replace demolished premises on the same land.

To avoid doubt, if the residential premises are *new residential premises because of paragraph (b) or (c) of this definition, the new residential premises include land of which the new residential premises are a part.