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RestrictStartDate="2019-07-23"><Title>Territorial Sea Act 1987</Title><Number>1987 c. 49</Number><LongTitle>An Act to provide for the extent of the territorial sea adjacent to the British Islands.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText>[15th May 1987] <CommentaryRef Ref="c786559"/></DateText></DateOfEnactment><PrimaryPreamble><EnactingText><Para><Text><CommentaryRef Ref="c786560"/>Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—<CommentaryRef Ref="key-daf11a2dab910d7353f3b5a8e6481d27"/></Text></Para></EnactingText></PrimaryPreamble></PrimaryPrelims></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c786559" Type="I"><Para><Text>Act not in force at Royal Assent see <CitationSubRef id="c00001" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49/section/4/2" SectionRef="section-4-2">s. 4(2)</CitationSubRef>; Act wholly in force at 01. 10. 1987.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c786560" Type="C"><Para><Text>Act extended (with modifications) (31.3.1997) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="278">S.I. 1997/278</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00003" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278/article/2" CitationRef="c00002" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00004" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278/schedule" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00002" SectionRef="schedule">Sch</CitationSubRef></Text></Para><Para><Text>Act extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 with art. 1 of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00005" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278" id="c00006" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="278">S.I. 1997/278</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278/article/2" CitationRef="c00006" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00008" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278/schedule/paragraph/2/b" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00006" SectionRef="schedule-paragraph-2-b">Sch. para. 2(b)</CitationSubRef>, para. (ii) of proviso (as amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00009" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00010" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250/article/2/a" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00009" SectionRef="article-2-a">art. 2(a)</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para><Para><Text>Act extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00011" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278" id="c00012" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="278">S.I. 1997/278</Citation> (as amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00013" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00014" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250/article/2/b" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00013" SectionRef="article-2-b">art. 2(b)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para><Para><Text>Act extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00015" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/278" id="c00016" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="278">S.I. 1997/278</Citation> (as amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250" id="c00017" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="250">S.I. 2002/250</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00018" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2002/250/article/2/c" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00017" SectionRef="article-2-c">art. 2(c)</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-daf11a2dab910d7353f3b5a8e6481d27" Type="C"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef SectionRef="introduction" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49" id="chg2jiox3-00007">Act</CitationSubRef> extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) (23.7.2019) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2019/1108" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2019" Number="1108" Title="The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Guernsey) Order 2019" id="chg2jiox3-00008">The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Guernsey) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1108)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef SectionRef="article-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2019/1108/article/2" CitationRef="chg2jiox3-00008" id="chg2jiox3-00009">art. 2</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef SectionRef="schedule" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2019/1108/schedule" CitationRef="chg2jiox3-00008" Operative="true" id="chg2jiox3-00010">Sch.</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>