Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSFER OF LAND ACT 1893 - SECT 167A

167A .         Rights of way generally not public ways or thoroughfares

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), every right of way shown and marked as such upon any map or plan deposited with the Registrar, under the provisions of Part VIII, on the subdivision of any land shall, unless the contrary is stated, be deemed an easement appurtenant to the land comprised in such map or plan and abutting upon such right of way, and not a public way or thoroughfare.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply, and is deemed never to have applied, to or in relation to land —

            (a)         vested in the Crown under section 20A of the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 ¹¹ or section 152 of the Planning and Development Act 2005 for the purpose of a pedestrian accessway or right of way; or

            (b)         shown and marked as a footway or right of way on a map or plan (being a map or plan deposited with the Registrar of Titles) and transferred to the Crown —

                  (i)         at the same time as, or after, the registration of certificates of title in accordance with that map or plan; and

                  (ii)         before the commencement of section 20A of the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 ¹¹ .

        [Section 167A inserted: 2 Edw. VII. No. 10 s. 8 (as amended: No. 17 of 1950 s. 75); amended: No. 57 of 1991 s. 22; No. 81 of 1996 s. 100; No. 38 of 2005 s. 15.]