Crown applicationN.I.
47—(1) This Act binds the Crown to the full extent authorised or permitted by the constitutional laws of Northern Ireland and applies in relation to any Crown land as it applies in relation to any other land.
(2) No contravention by the Crown of any provision of this Act is to make the Crown criminally liable; but the High Court may, on the application of the Department, declare unlawful any act of the Crown which constitutes such a contravention.
(3) Despite subsection (2), the provisions of this Act apply to persons in the public service of the Crown as they apply to other persons.
(4) For the purposes of this section “Crown land” means land an interest in which—
(a)belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown,
(b)belongs to a Northern Ireland department or a department of the government of the United Kingdom or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of any such department.