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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxx View Post
    Can you explain the bold bit for me please @BRADS ?
    Someone slides off a paper road and dies, they didn't die on your land. They died on a public road (OK, they might end up on your land, having slid off public land...just like 50% of current road accidents)

    Someone slides off one of your farm tracks, but wasn't permitted to be there: HSAW Act 2015 does not apply to the incident.

    I fully understand farmer's reticence re permitting the public to cross their land, but it boils down to: A paper road is not their land. End of story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    Someone slides off a paper road and dies, they didn't die on your land. They died on a public road (OK, they might end up on your land, having slid off public land...just like 50% of current road accidents)

    Someone slides off one of your farm tracks, but wasn't permitted to be there: HSAW Act 2015 does not apply to the incident.

    I fully understand farmer's reticence re permitting the public to cross their land, but it boils down to: A paper road is not their land. End of story.
    I think you'll find when that goes to court you'll be had up for not maintaining said paper road to a standard you can drive a swift up it...unfortunately speaking from experience

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRADS View Post
    I think you'll find when that goes to court you'll be had up for not maintaining said paper road to a standard you can drive a swift up it...unfortunately speaking from experience

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    I highly doubt that. HSAW Act specifies that if people are on your land without your authority, culpability does not apply.

    But back to the paper road, if a judge is that thick, you simply bring up WAMS, show him the purple bit and say: Its an unformed legal road, not farmland within my title. I am a farmer, not a council and I do not own a road. It simply runs through bits of my farm. Go talk to the council.
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