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Posted 21 September 2023
Category: Strata
Strata owners corporations have an increasingly broad range of options for reducing their impact on the environment and potentially saving or even making some money in the process. This will generally involve adoption of some form of sustainability infrastructure. Ever improving technology and legislative changes in recent years have increased the range and benefits of such measures, as well as reducing the complexity of implementing them. On top of that, various rebates and other forms of assistance may be available from third parties. For more details please check out Wattblockās blog on Incentives & Rebates from Government for Strata Sustainability in NSW.
So far as options are concerned, possible measures and their benefits include:
This will generally involve alterations or additions to common property and the making of a common property rights by-law, generally requiring a special resolution. However, strata management legislation provisions are such that this will constitute a “sustainability infrastructure resolution” and require only a simple majority in most cases. The relevant definitions are very broad, e.g.:
Sustainability Infrastructure means changes to part of the common property (which includes the installation, removal, modification or replacement of anything on or forming part of that property) for any one or more of the following purposes:
Note: For example, installing electric vehicle charging stations.
Sustainability Infrastructure Resolution means a resolution to do any one or more of the following that is specified to be a sustainability infrastructure resolution:
There are some issues, but these are manageable. The most important are as follows:
Private tax rulings
An owners corporation may apply to the ATO for a private tax ruling based on their particular circumstances.
A private ruling can only be relied upon by the applicant for the duration specified in the private ruling.
An expired private ruling in respect of a solar feed in tariff is attached to this link.Ā It was available on the ATO website, but due to the fact it has now expired and was only applicable to the applicant it has been removed, please see the following link.
For tax related matters for owners corporation, this link will also be of interest: Taxation of Strata Schemes – What is TR2015/3?
Need help implementing sustainability infrastructure
The normal flow for implementation and compliance in NSW would be:
There are other options, but we rarely see them taken up e.g. the owners corporation installs infrastructure and enters into utilities service agreements to sell the energy to the owners akin to an embedded network.
Feel free to reach out to our experienced team of strata lawyers for assistance.
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