Additional eligibility criteria for grants only under the battery program or the combined solar and battery program
9 Additional eligibility criteria for grants only under the battery program or the combined solar and battery program
This section applies to an application for the following assistance under the scheme—
for a grant only under the battery program for residential or business premises;
for a grant only under the combined solar and battery program for residential or business premises.
For the applicant to be eligible to receive assistance for residential premises—
the application must be submitted in the names of no more than 2 persons for whom the residential premises at which the eligible system is to be installed are their principal place of residence; and
each person named in the application must be an individual; and
at least 1 person named in the application must be the owner or joint owner of the premises; and
each person named in the application must be an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia.
For common property under a community titles scheme, the applicant must be the body corporate for the community titles scheme.
For the applicant to be eligible to receive assistance for business premises—
the applicant must own the premises or, if an entity other than the applicant owns the premises, the authority must be satisfied that the applicant has a sufficient connection with that entity; and
Examples of a sufficient connection with an entity—
• the applicant is a director of a company that owns the premises
• the premises are owned by the applicant’s self-managed superannuation fund
the applicant must carry on a small business from the premises.
In this section—
body corporate see the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997, schedule 6.
community titles scheme see the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997, section 10.
joint owner, of premises, means a person who is an owner of the premises under a joint tenancy or tenancy in common.
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