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Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1884
75CAIrregular boundary with highway
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### 75CA Irregular boundary with highway
> *\[Section 75CA Inserted by No. 37 of 1965, s. 2 \]*
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> > (1) *\[Section 75CA Subsection (1) amended by No. 75 of 1973, s. 2 and Sched. 1 \]*Where a building is built on land a boundary of which is a boundary of an adjoining highway and the building extends –
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> > > > (a) under that highway without causing any nuisance thereto; or
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> > > > (b) over –
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> > > > > > (i) a footpath of that highway and at least 2·4 metres above it; or
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> > > > > > (ii) the carriage-way of that highway and at least 4·25 metres above it –
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> > the authority having the care and management of that highway may declare by deed that the extensions or any of them (in all cases specifying them) may remain so long as the building remains.
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> > (2) On the registration of such a deed in the Registry of Deeds or the office of the Recorder of Titles, in whichever the title to the land is registered, the extensions therein specified shall be deemed to have been granted by whoever was capable of granting them to the owner of the land in fee simple so long as the building remains.
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> > (3) This section applies similarly to land subject on the relevant boundary to part of the highway, in respect of extensions beyond that boundary.