Queensland Consolidated Acts

NEIGHBOURHOOD DISPUTES (DIVIDING FENCES AND TREES) ACT 2011 - SECT 23

23 Contribution—prescribed land adjoining residential development

(1) This section applies if—

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

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

(2) An owner of prescribed 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 land before the residential development.

(3) In this section—

"prescribed land" means land greater than a size prescribed by regulation.