IT MIGHT not have meant life-changing resolutions or fireworks at midnight, but July 1 brought a new financial year and, along with it, a raft of new laws and tax cuts.
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If you play paintball, are keen to adopt a pet or buy a house, have an inactive superannuation fund or breed sheep, things could be changing for you.
For those who love a game of paintball, listen up: There are new paintball regulations in NSW that came into effect on Monday.
Children as young as 12 can now play paintball - previously they had to wait until they were 16. The Australasian Paintball Association has campaigned for years for the minimum age to be reduced.
Anyone keen to sell or give away a cat or a dog across NSW must comply with new laws as of July 1.
Anyone advertising kittens, cats, puppies or dogs for sale or to give away will need to include an identification number in the advertisement.
People can use the microchip, breeder identification or re-homing organisation number to comply.
This new law is for all forms of advertising, including: in newspapers, on posters or community notice boards, websites such as the Trading Post or Gumtree and social media, the Pet Industry Association Australia said.
For anyone looking to purchase a house, from Monday big changes to stamp duty were introduced.
NSW became the first state to index stamp duty brackets to the consumer price index. This means stamp duty is not be affected by property price inflation.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said this stamp duty change would help make it "easier for people to realise the dream of owning a home".
As from July 1, new laws meant that if you hold insurance through your superannuation fund, and if you have not made a contribution for the last 16 months, your insurance could be cancelled.
This means if you or your employer have not contributed since February 2018, you may be in trouble.
Find out more on the superannuation changes by visiting www.my.gov.au.
And for graziers across the state, July 1 signals a new definition of a lamb in NSW. From that date a lamb is aged under 12 months with no permanent incisor teeth.
Previously you could have bought a lamb on Friday and it would have lost two-thirds of its value if it lost a milk tooth over this weekend.
Grace Ryan
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
