The Continental Shelf (Designated Areas) (Extended Territorial Sea) Order 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Parts of the areas designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 as areas within which the rights exercisable by the United Kingdom outside territorial waters with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their resources are exercisable will cease to have this status to the extent that they are brought within the seaward limits of the territorial sea as a consequence of its extension by or under the Territorial Sea Act 1987. This Order makes clear that the Orders designating such areas shall continue to have effect except that no part of the sea or sea bed or subsoil within the seaward limits of the territorial sea as extended by or under that Act shall be regarded as part of a designated area. However, section 2(3) and (4) of that Act preserves the existing operation of section 1(2) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 in relation to coal and certain regulations and licences in relation to petroleum within the area which becomes part of the territorial sea by or under the Territorial Sea Act 1987 and this Order ensures that, in respect of these matters, the existing Orders defining the designated areas shall continue fully in effect.