Crown rights
30.—(1) Nothing in this Order affects prejudicially any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown and, in particular, nothing in this Order authorises the undertaker to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with any land, hereditaments, or rights of whatsoever description (including any part of the shore or bed of the sea or 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 government department.
(2) No interest in Crown land may be acquired compulsorily under this Order unless the appropriate Crown authority consents to the acquisition.
(3) A consent under paragraph (1) or (2) may be given unconditionally or subject to such conditions or upon such terms as may be considered necessary or appropriate.