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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 procedures of court proceedings. Part III provides for the construction and repair of dividing fences.

Full text
English
Website
www.parlzim.gov.zw