{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-act-2025/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-act-2025/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/7",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Estate Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-act-2025",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Territorial seabed",
  "text": "After section 3A of the Crown Estate Act 1961 (inserted by section 1 of this Act) insert—\n“Restriction on permanently disposing of interest in seabed etc\n3B (1) The Commissioners may not without the consent of the Treasury permanently dispose of—\n(a) any part of the territorial seabed, or\n(b) any interest, right or privilege over or in relation to the territorial seabed,\nwhich forms part of the Crown Estate.\n(2) Accordingly, without that consent, any purported disposal of a kind mentioned in subsection (1) is void.\n(3) In subsection (1), “territorial seabed” means the seabed and subsoil within the seaward limits of the United Kingdom territorial waters.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 11.5.2025, see s. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/7/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:47:03.692209+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}