Crown Rights
40.—(1) Nothing in this Order prejudices or derogates from any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown.
(2) In particular, nothing in this Order authorises any person to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with, any land or interest in land (including any portion of the shore or bed of the sea or of any river, channel, creek, bay or estuary) belonging to—
(a)Her Majesty in right of Her Crown and under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners, without the consent in writing of those Commissioners, or
(b)a government department, or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, without the consent in writing of that department.
(3) A consent under paragraph (2) may be given unconditionally, or subject to terms and conditions.