SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Registration of adverse possessor

13Crown foreshore

1

Where—

a

a person is in adverse possession of an estate in land,

b

the estate belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duchy of Cornwall, and

c

the land consists of foreshore,

paragraph 1(1) is to have effect as if the reference to ten years were to sixty years.

2

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), land is to be treated as foreshore if it has been foreshore at any time in the previous ten years.

3

In this paragraph, “foreshore” means the shore and bed of the sea and of any tidal water, below the line of the medium high tide between the spring and neap tides.