Positive covenants

Public positive covenants are created under either s88D or s88E Conveyancing Act 1919 impose obligations on the new owner of the land burdened.

Positive covenants for maintenance and/or repair may be imposed requiring the maintenance or repair of the site of a new or existing easement.

Forestry covenants are an interest in land where a person is given the right to access land to establish, maintain and harvest a crop of trees.

Positive covenant for bushfire hazard reduction zone may require the proprietors of one or more specified parcels to clear and maintain a strip of land land as a bushfire hazard protection zone on land adjoining one of the boundaries of their land.