Right to farm laws: An update

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On 17 September 2019, the Minister for Agriculture and Western New South Wales, Adam Marshall, introduced into the Legislative Assembly the Right to Farm Bill 2019. The Bill has two main parts:

  1. A new Right to Farm Act to protect farmers from common law nuisance claims (known as "nuisance shield" legislation); and
  2. Amendments to the Inclosed Lands Protection Act 1901 to protect farmers from on-farm trespass activity.

This Issues Backgrounder deals with the first part of the Bill – the "nuisance shield" legislation and focuses primarily on significant developments in Australia.

Lenny Roth
Parliamentary Research Service
Issues Backgrounder 4, 2019

Published: 17 October 2019

This paper updates Right to farm laws published by the NSW Parliamentary Research Service in 2015.

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