Queensland Consolidated Acts

NEIGHBOURHOOD DISPUTES (DIVIDING FENCES AND TREES) ACT 2011 - SECT 22

22 Contribution—parcel of prescribed rural land adjoining residential development

(1) This section applies if—

(a) adjoining land previously consisted of 2 parcels of prescribed rural land; and

(b) there is a residential development of all or part of 1 parcel of the adjoining land.

Example—

The adjoining land consists of a sugar cane farm and a housing estate but previously consisted of 2 sugar cane farms.

(2) An owner of prescribed rural land is liable to contribute to carrying out fencing work for a dividing fence that would have been a sufficient dividing fence for the 2 parcels of prescribed rural land before the residential development.