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.