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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 198A Prescriptive right of way not acquired by user

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 198A

Prescriptive right of way not acquired by user

198A Prescriptive right of way not acquired by user

(1) User after the commencement of this Act of a way over land shall not of itself be sufficient evidence of an easement of way or a right of way having been acquired by prescription or by the fiction of a lost grant.
(2) If at any time it is established that an easement of way or right of way over land existed at the commencement of this Act, the existence and continuance of the easement or right shall not be affected by subsection (1) .
(3) For the purpose of establishing the existence at the commencement of this Act of an easement of way or right of way over land user after such commencement of a way over that land shall be disregarded.