Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Fencing Act 1978

Liability for work on a fence

13: Where notices vary

You could also call this:

“What happens when you and your neighbour have different ideas about fence work”

If you and your neighbour send each other notices about fence work, but your ideas don’t match, you have 21 days to try to agree. If you can’t agree in that time, you can ask the court to decide what to do. The court will follow the rules set out in this law to make its decision.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM21863.

Topics:
Housing and property > Home safety and repairs
Housing and property > Land use
Previous

12: Service of notices, or

“How to properly send notices about fences”

Next

14: Provision for doing work, or

“Rules for doing work on a fence with your neighbour”

Part 3 Liability for work on a fence

13Where notices vary

  1. If a notice and cross-notice have been duly served or if notices to do work have been duly served and the proposals in those notices do not correspond, then (unless within 21 days after the date of the service of the last notice or cross-notice the differences are resolved by agreement) the matters in dispute may be determined by the court in manner hereafter provided in this Act.

Compare
  • 1908 No 61 s 14