Crown Estate Act 1961

Provisions of Crown Lands Acts 1829 to 1936, continued in force U.K.

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— U.K.

(a) sections twenty-one to twenty-three of the M1 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) F1 . . .;

(b) section thirteen of the M2 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 M3 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 M4 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 M5 Crown Lands Act 1936 (which provided for the management of certain land occupied as part of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(a) repealed (5.11.1993) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII

Marginal Citations

M1 1851 c. 42.

M2 1927 c. 23.

M3 1936 c. 47.

M4 1906 c. 28.

M5 1936 c. 47.

2 U.K. There shall also continue in force the following provisions, as amended by any subsequent enactment, that is to say,—

(a) F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) in the M6 Crown Lands (Scotland) Act 1833, [F3 section eight (which relates to the effect in Scotland of certain documents)]; and

(c) in the M7 Crown Lands Act 1851, section fifteen (which, subject to the M8 Minister of Works Act 1942 specifies the persons to be Commissioners of Works); and

(d) in the M9 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 M10 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 exercise powers of management by virtue of section twenty-two of the M11 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 M12 Commissioners of Works Act 1852.

Textual Amendments

F2 Para. 2(a) repealed by Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971 (c. 47), Sch.

F3 Words substituted by Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 38), s. 20 for reference to ss. 7 and 8 as applied by Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (c. 28), s. 7

Marginal Citations

M6 1833 c. 69.

M7 1851 c. 42.

M8 1942 c. 23.

M9 1894 c. 43.

M10 1906 c. 28.

M11 1851 c. 42.

M12 1852 c. 28.