PART 6MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Crown rights

article 50 + 50.—(1) Nothing in this Order affects prejudicially any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown and, in particular, nothing in this Order authorises the undertaker or any licensee to use, enter on or in any manner interfere with any land or rights of any description (including any portion of the river)—

article 50 1 a + (a)belonging to His Majesty in right of the Crown and forming part of the Crown Estate without the consent in writing of the Crown Estate Commissioners;

article 50 1 b + (b)belonging to His Majesty in right of the Crown and not forming part of the Crown Estate without the consent in writing of the government department having the management of that land; or

article 50 1 c + (c)belonging to 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.

term the appropriate crown authority + term crown land + (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the exercise of any right under this Order for the compulsory acquisition of an interest in any Crown land (as defined in section 227(1) (“Crown land” and “the appropriate Crown authority”) of the 2008 Act) which is for the time being held otherwise than by or on behalf of the Crown.

(3) A consent under paragraph (1)—

article 50 3 a + (a)may be given unconditionally or subject to terms and conditions; and

article 50 3 b + (b)is deemed to have been given in writing where it is sent electronically.