1(1)The following provisions of the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1936 (which provide for the management of particular properties to be transferred from one authority to another), as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall continue in force, that is to say—
(a)sections twenty-one to twenty-three of the Crown Lands Act, 1851 (by virtue of which the Minister of Works and others have powers of management in the case of certain Royal parks and other land or buildings), together with the entry in the Schedule to that Act relating to an Act to provide for the care and preservation of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster ;
(b)section thirteen of the Crown Lands Act, 1927, so far as relates to the transfer of houses and grounds in royal forests, parks and chases from the management of the Minister of Works to the management of the Commissioners ;
(c)section nine of the Crown Lands Act, 1936, so far as relates to the transfer of certain parts of Regent's Park from the management of the Commissioners to the management of the Minister of Works ;
(d)section seven of the Crown Lands Act, 1906 (which relates to the management of Richmond and Kew Greens by the Richmond borough council).
(2)The continuance in. force of any enactment by sub-paragraph (1) above shall not be taken to except any other enactment from the repeal by this Act of the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1936.
(3)Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of any Order in Council made under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section nine of the Crown Lands Act, 1936 (which provided for the management of certain land occupied as part of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).
2There shall also continue in force the following provisions, as amended by any subsequent enactment, that is to say.—
(a)in the Crown Lands Act, 1829, sections one hundred to one hundred and five (which relate to the powers of verderers in a forest), so far as they remain applicable to the Forest of Dean ; and
(b)in the Crown Lands (Scotland) Act, 1833, sections seven and eight (which relate to the registration and effect in Scotland of certain documents), as applied by section seven of the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852 ; and
(c)in the Crown Lands Act, 1851, section fifteen (which, subject to the Minister of Works Act, 1942, specifies the persons to be Commissioners of Works); and
(d)in the Crown Lands Act, 1894, section six (which makes general provision about the implied surrender of Crown leases by the grant of a new lease); and
(e)in the Crown Lands Act, 1906—
(i)section three (which relates to the settlement of disputed claims about foreshore between the Commissioners and the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster), together with the supplementary provisions in sections ten and eleven ; and
(ii)so far as relates to land over which the Minister of Works exercises powers of management by virtue of section twenty-two of the Crown Lands Act, 1851, section six (which enables him to convey land for bridges to a bridge authority), but so that the references to the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1894, shall be omitted and any conveyance shall be made and enrolled in like manner as on a sale under the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852.