Crown Estate Act 1961

3 (1) Except as provided by sections seven and eight of this Act, this Act shall not affect any question as to the application (otherwise than in the course of management of the Crown Estate or for the purpose of arrangements under subsection (5) of section five of this Act) of any income, proceeds of sale or other moneys arising from the property, rights or interests of the Crown, or any question as to the property, rights or interests to be placed under the management of the Commissioners ; and notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, the possessions and land revenues of the Crown in Northern Ireland shall continue as heretofore to be inalienable except in the exercise of the powers of the Commissioners or otherwise under the authority of an Act of Parliament.

(2) The repeal by this Act of section nineteen of the Crown Lands (Scotland) Act, 1833 (which relates to the payment in Scotland of certain duties, fees, etc.), shall not affect any right of the Commissioners to demand and receive fees upon payment of duties or rents.