Criterion 4—Applicant (or applicant's spouse etc) must not have had relevant interest in residential property
11 Criterion 4—Applicant (or applicant's spouse etc) must not have had relevant interest in residential property
An applicant for a first home owner grant is ineligible if the applicant or the applicant's spouse or domestic partner has, before
1 July 2000, held—
a relevant interest in residential property in South Australia; or
an interest in residential property in another State or a Territory that is a relevant interest under the corresponding law of that
State or Territory.
In working out for the purposes of subsection (1) whether an applicant held a relevant interest (within the meaning of this Act or a corresponding law) in residential property at a particular time, if the commencement date of the eligible transaction is before the relevant day, any deferment of the applicant's right of occupation because the property was subject to a lease is to be disregarded.
An applicant for a first home owner grant is also ineligible if, before the commencement date of the eligible transaction, the applicant or the applicant's spouse or domestic partner—
held a relevant interest in residential property in South Australia or an interest in residential property in another State or Territory that is a relevant interest under the corresponding law of that State or
Territory; and
if the commencement date of the eligible transaction is before the relevant day, occupied the property as a place of residence for a continuous period of at least 6 months.
In this section—
relevant day means the day on which section 4 of the Statutes
Amendment (Budget Measures) Act 2025 comes into operation.
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