This Act is administered in the Ministry of Justice
Title
1 Short Title and commencement
Part 1Interpretation and application
2 Interpretation
3 Application of Act
Part 2Agreements
4 Act not to interfere with agreements
5 Fencing covenants and agreements registrable
6 Registration of fencing covenants to expire after 12 years
7 Creation of fencing covenants
8 Fence not to encroach without consent or Court Order
Part 3Liability for work on a fence
9 Adjoining occupiers to share cost of fencing
9A Contributions where fence required by Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987
10 Notice to do work to be given
11 Objections to proposed fence
12 Service of notices
13 Where notices vary
14 Provision for doing work
15 Effect of change of occupier
16 Contribution where immediate work required
17 Liability for damage caused by occupier
18 Person taking advantage of fence
19 Fence erected when occupier of adjoining land exempt from liability therefor
20 Crown tenant's option
21 Give and take fence
22 Where fence to be built
Part 4Procedure
23 Proceedings to be in accordance with District Courts Act 1947
24 Jurisdiction of the Court
24A Jurisdiction of Disputes Tribunals
25 Power to come in and defend proceedings
Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
26 Right of persons constructing fences to enter on adjoining land
27 Rules
28 Repeals and savings
Schedule 1Forms
Schedule 2Specimen types of fence
Schedule 3Enactments repealed
An Act to reform the law relating to the erection and repair of dividing fences, and in substitution for the Fencing Act 1908
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: