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Law of Property Act 2000
157Description of certain easements etc.
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157 Description of certain easements etc.
(1) Subject to section 161, a person who is entitled to the use or benefit
of a registered easement or easement in gross of a right of way is
to be taken to have the rights specified in Part A of Schedule 3.
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(2) Subject to section 161, a person who is entitled to the use and
benefit of a registered easement or easement in gross described in
Column 1 of Part B of Schedule 3 has:
(a) the use or benefit of the easement or easement in gross for
the purpose specified opposite in Column 2 of Part B of the
Schedule; and
(b) whether by the person or by his or her agents or employees,
the powers specified opposite in Column 3 of Part B of the
Schedule.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not limit the powers a person has
because of the entitlement to the use or benefit of a registered
easement or easement in gross under any other law in force in the
(4) In establishing the ownership of a pipe, duct, wire, pole or other
thing to which an easement or an easement in gross referred to in
subsection (2) relates and that is attached to or constructed
through, under, on, across or above land for a purpose specified in
Column 2 of Part B of Schedule 3, the pipe, duct, wire, pole or other
thing is not to be taken to be a fixture of the land.
(5) This section applies to easements and easements in gross created
after this Act commences.