Crown Agents Act 1979

28 Provisions as to revenue of, and alienations by, former Agents.U.K.

(1)Revenue received (before or after the passing of this Act) by the former Agents or any of them on behalf of the Crown shall not be treated as being, or as having at any time been, required to be paid into the Consolidated Fund by virtue of section 1 of the M1Civil List Act 1952 (payment of hereditary revenues into that Fund) or any corresponding earlier enactment.

(2)The former Agents shall be deemed not to be, and never to have been, subject to any restraint on alienation imposed on the Crown by section 5 of the M2Crown Lands Act 1702.

(3)In this section “the former Agents” means the persons from time to time holding office under the Crown (whether as the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations or by any other name) as the persons appointed to act as agents or trustees for oversea governments and administrations, and in subsection (2) includes persons who have ceased to hold office as aforesaid.

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