Ancient monuments and archaeological areasI13

1

The Parliamentary corporation shall be treated as a Crown body for the purposes of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 19794 (in this article referred to as “the 1979 Act”) and accordingly–

a

the interest of the Parliamentary corporation in any land shall be treated as a Crown interest, within the meaning of section 50 of that Act (application to Crown land);

b

any operations carried out by or on behalf of the Parliamentary corporation shall be treated as carried out by or on behalf of the Crown; and

c

the use of the land by the Parliamentary corporation for the purposes of the Scottish Parliament shall be treated as use by or on behalf of the Crown;

and in relation to land which is Crown land, within the meaning of section 50 of that Act, by virtue only of sub-paragraph (a) above, “the appropriate authority” for the purposes of that section shall be the Parliamentary corporation.

2

To the extent that the Parliamentary corporation has responsibility for the management of any land in which it has no interests, the Parliamentary corporation shall be treated as a government department for the purposes of section 50(4)(a) of the 1979 Act, which defines “the appropriate authority” in relation to certain land belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown.

3

In this article “land” has the same meaning as in the 1979 Act.