LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 6B
LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 6B
6B . Certain rights of way vested in local governments, status of etc.
To avoid doubt, it is
declared that if —
(a) land
was or is taken or resumed and vested in a local government for the purpose of
a right of way or a right of way and recreation, and not a road; and
(b) the
land comprising the right of way or right of way and recreation has not been
or is not dedicated as a road under a written law,
the land —
(c) is
and since it was vested in the local government has remained a right of way;
and
(d) the
common law relating to the creation of a public right of way by way of
dedication and acceptance has never applied and does not apply to the land so
as to dedicate the land as a public right of way.
[Section 6B inserted: No. 59 of 2000 s. 5.]