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NORFOLK ISLAND
FENCING REGULATIONS 1985
Regulations No. 2 of 1986 ________
I, Peter Michael Ilyk, Deputy Administrator of Norfolk Island, acting in accordance with the advice of the Executive Council of Norfolk Island, hereby make the following Regulations under the Fencing Act 1913.
Dated this twelfth day of March 1986. P.M. Ilyk Deputy Administrator By His Honour's Command A.I. Buffett Minister for Social Services and Primary Industry ________
Short title 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fencing Regulations 1985. Interpretation 2. (1) In these Regulations "the Act" means the Fencing Act 1913. (2) For the purposes of these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, words, expressions and provisions have the same interpretation, application and effect as they have under the Act. Minimum standards of artificial structures 3. For the purposes of registration under the Act the minimum standards of artificial structures forming a fence or part of a fence are as specified in the Schedule. Hedges 4. A fence or part of a fence that is composed of a hedge shall be supported by an artificial structure that complies with the minimum standards specified in the Schedule.
SCHEDULE Regulation 3
MINIMUM STANDARDS OF ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES
1. FENCES AND GATES (a) Openings Openings shall not exceed 20 centimetres high and 91 centimetres broad, such breadth to be parallel to the ground or any other part of the fence that is parallel to the ground. (b) Height The top level of the fence shall be not less than 1.5 metres from the ground. (c) Posts Posts shall be securely fixed not more than 3.66 metres apart. (d) Droppers Droppers in a — (i) barbed wire fence - shall be not more than 91 centimetres apart; or (ii) plain wire or mixed plain and barbed wire fence - shall be not more than 61 centimetres apart. (e) Gate latches Gate latches shall be sound and secure and not capable of being opened by animals. 2. CATTLE GRIDS (a) A cattle grid shall, between the outside border at the fence line and its parallel inside border, be not less than 1.83 metres.
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