DIVIDING FENCES ACT 1991 - SECT 6
General principle--liability for fencing work
DIVIDING FENCES ACT 1991 - SECT 6
General principle--liability for fencing work
6 General principle--liability for fencing work
(1) An adjoining owner is liable, in respect of adjoining lands where there is
no sufficient dividing fence, to contribute to the carrying out of fencing
work that results or would result in the provision of a dividing fence of a
standard not greater than the standard for a sufficient dividing fence.
(2)
This section applies whether or not a dividing fence already separates the
adjoining lands.
