Dividing Fences Act 1953. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision Queensland Document type Legislation Date 1953 (2003) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act relating to the construction and repair of dividing fences between certain lands. Subject Land & soil Keyword Ownership Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract This Act provides for the construction and repair of dividing fences, i.e. a fence separating the adjoining lands of different owners, whether the adjoining lands are wholly or only partly separated thereby and whether the fence is on the line of or, in an appropriate case, on a line on the common boundary of the adjoining lands or on a line other than the line of or a line on the common boundary, or partly on any one of those lines and partly on the other or others (sect. 6). The Act is divided in four Parts: Preliminary; Construction of dividing fences; Repair of existing dividing fences and General. Full text English Website www.legislation.qld.gov.au