2(1)The Continental Shelf Act 1964 shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In section 1 (exploration and exploitation of continental shelf), subsection (3) and, in subsection (8), the words from “and “petroleum”” to the end shall be omitted.
(3)In section 6 (wireless telegraphy) and section 7 (radioactive substances) for “section 23 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982” there shall be substituted “ section 11 of the Petroleum Act 1998 ”.
(4)At the end of section 8 (submarine cables and pipe-lines) there shall be added—
“(1A)It is hereby declared that the reference in subsection (1) of this section to pipe-lines under the high seas includes pipe-lines under the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom.”.