Australian Capital Territory
Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904     (repealed)
A1904-16
Republication No 2
Effective:  5 March 1996
Republication date: 8 January 2008
As repealed by A1996-1 sch

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

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The republished law
This is a republication of the Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904 (repealed) effective 5 March 1996.
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Australian Capital Territory

ancient lights declaratory act 1904 (new south wales) 
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Repealed by No. 1, 1996 (in force 4 March 1996)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Right not acquired by use or presumption of lost grant
	3.	Short title

An Act to declare the law with respect to ancient lights
Right not acquired by use or presumption of lost grant
1.  From and after the commencement of this Act, no right to the access or use of light to or for any building shall be deemed to exist, or to be capable of coming into existence, by reason only of the enjoyment of such access or use for any period or of any presumption of a lost grant based upon such enjoyment.
Short title
3.  This Act may be cited as the Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904.1

NOTE
1. The Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904 of the State of New South Wales (No. 16, 1904) as shown in this reprint was one of the laws in force in the Australian Capital Territory before 1 January 1911 and was therefore continued in force by the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 of the Commonwealth.
The text of the Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory as at 10 August 1984 comprises Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984 (No. 41, 1984) as amended, details of that amendment are as follows:
Section 2 was repealed by the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984. 
The Ancient Lights Declaratory Act 1904 of the State of New South Wales (No. 16, 1904) was repealed by the Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996 A1996-1 sch on 4 March 1996 (s 2 and Gaz 1996 No S31).

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