Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011. | Land Portal

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Agosto 2011
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LEX-FAOC153594
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The objects of this Act, consisting of 99 sections divided into six Chapters and completed by one Schedule, are: a) to provide rules about each neighbour’s responsibility for dividing fences and for trees so that neighbours are generally able to resolve issues about fences or trees without a dispute arising; and b) to facilitate the resolution of any disputes about dividing fences or trees that do arise between neighbours. This Act applies to the following areas: 1) Agricultural land is rural land of more than half a hectare used for cultivating crops on a commercial basis regardless of whether the land is also used for residential purposes. 2) Pastoral land is rural land of more than half a hectare used for grazing stock on a commercial basis regardless of whether the land is also used for residential purposes. 3) Prescribed rural land is agricultural land, pastoral land or other rural land of more than half a hectare primarily used for residential purposes. 4) Residential land is land, other than agricultural land and pastoral land, used primarily for residential purposes.This Act is divided as follows: Chapter 2 Dividing fences; Chapter 3 Trees; Chapter 4 Provisions of general application; Chapter 5 Transitional provisions; Chapter 6 Repeal and amendment of this Act and other Acts;

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Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel

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