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My noble friend also raised some specific points with me on the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster, which I am happy to answer now. He asked who decides which properties are exempted from the Crown’s undertaking to apply leaseholder law by analogy. Crown bodies, which includes the Crown Estate and the two duchies, are not bound by the enfranchisement legislation. However, during the passage of each iteration of enfranchisement legislation through Parliament, an undertaking has been given to Parliament that Crown bodies would comply “by analogy” with the legislation. The parliamentary undertaking distinguishes between properties in areas known as “non-excepted areas” and “excepted areas”.