The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) (Amendment) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 250

TERRITORIAL SEA

The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) (Amendment) Order 2002

Made

12th February 2002

Coming into force

In accordance with Article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of February 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 4(4) of the Territorial Sea Act 1987(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) (Amendment) Order 2002 and may be cited, together with the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) Order 1997(2), as the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) Orders 1997–2002. It shall come into force on the date on which the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic concerning the Establishment of a Maritime Boundary between France and Jersey enters into force. That date will be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.  The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) Order 1997 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph (ii) of the proviso to section 1 of the Territorial Sea Act 1987, as extended to the Bailiwick of Jersey with the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified in the Schedule to the said Order, shall be deleted and the following substituted therefor—

“(ii) the seaward limit of the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Jersey between Point 13 and Point 1 indicated in Schedule 3 to this Act shall consist of a series of straight lines joining, in the sequence given, those two points and Points 14 to 25 indicated in Schedule 4 to this Act.”;

(b) in section 1(7) of the said Act of 1987, as so extended, for “Schedule 3” there shall be substituted “Schedules 3 and 4” and paragraph (a) shall be deleted; and

(c) at the end of Schedule 3 to the said Act of 1987, as so extended, there shall be added—

Section 1(1)(ii)

“SCHEDULE 4 LIST OF POINTS

From Point 13 in Schedule 3 to:

Point	Position of Point
14	49°21'.88N	01°59'.55W
15	49°19'.00N	01°53'.50W
16	49°15'.05N	01°50'.00W
17	49°11'.00N	01°50'.00W
18	49°03'.95N	01°51'.55W
19	48°57'.88N	01°56'.57W
20	48°56'.50N	01°59'.00W
21	48°53'.00N	01°59'.00W
22	48°52'.33N	02°05'.00W
23	48°52'.33N	02°14'.50W
24	48°55'.67N	02°31'.52W
25	49°03'.57N	02°31'.52W

thence to Point 1 in Schedule 3.”.

A K Galloway

Clerk to the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) Order 1997, which extended the 1987 Act to Jersey, to take account of the maritime boundary established between France and Jersey in accordance with an Agreement between the United Kingdom and the French Republic, signed at St Helier on 4 July 2000 (Cm 5024).

(1)

1987 c. 49.

(2)

S.I. 1997/278.