Section 30 Crown exemption.
(1)
Nothing in this Act shall bind the Crown and, in particular, nothing in it shall authorise any person to acquire, take possession of, use, enter or in any way interfere with any land (including any part of the bed or foreshore of the sea or of the bed or banks of the inland bay) if to do so would affect a Crown interest in the land.
(2)
For the purposes of this section a Crown interest in land is an interest in land which—
(a)
belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, or
(b)
belongs to a government department or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department.