Crown Lands Act, 1866

Transfer to Board of Trade.

Transfer of Management of Foreshore to Board of Trade.

7. From and immediately after the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six all such Parts and Rights and Interests as then belong to Her Majesty in right of the Crown of and in the Shore and Bed of the Sea, and of every Channel, Creck, Bay, Estuary, and of every navigable River of the United Kingdom, as far up the same as the Tide flows (and which are herein-after for Brevity called the Foreshore), except as in this Act provided, shall, subject to the Provisions of this Act, and subject also to such public and other Rights as by Law exist in, over, or affecting the Foreshore or any Part thereof, be and the same are hereby transferred from the Management of the Commissioners of Woods to, and thenceforth the same shall be under the Management of, the Board of Trade.