Fencing Act [Chapter 20:06].

Country/Territory: Zimbabwe
Document type: Legislation
Date: 1976 (2001)
Source: FAO, FAOLEX
Long title: An Act to establish fencing courts and to confer on them certain powers and functions; to regulate the alteration, construction, relocation, repair or replacement of dividing fences; to create certain offences in relation to fences; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

Subject: Land & soil
Keyword: Court/tribunal Ownership Dispute settlement Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area: Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations

Abstract: This Act concerns the fencing of land. "Fence" means a fence separating the adjoining pieces of land of different owners and includes: (a) any gate, grid track, other than a grid on a main road as defined in the Roads Act, or stile and any other means of passage over or through the fence concerned; and (b) any ditch, hedge, railings or wall used as a fence. Part II of this Act prescribes that each magistrates court shall be a fencing court for the province in which it is situated prescribes the
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