PART 5SAVINGS

Crown Rights

article 23 + 23.—(1) Nothing in this Order—

article 23 1 a + (a)prejudicially affects any estate right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown;

article 23 1 b + (b)authorises the Commissioners or any licensee to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with any land or interests in land or any rights of whatsoever description (including any part of the shore or bed of the sea or of any river, channel, creek, bay or estuary) belonging to—

article 23 1 b i + (i)His Majesty in right of the Crown and under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners without the prior consent in writing of the Crown Estate Commissioners,

article 23 1 b ii + (ii)a government department or held in trust for His Majesty for the purposes of a government department, without the consent in writing of that government department.

(2) A consent under paragraph (1)(b) may be given unconditionally or subject to such conditions and upon such terms as may be considered necessary or appropriate.