2002 No. 250

TERRITORIAL SEA

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

Made

Coming into force

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 19871, 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 19972, 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—

SCHEDULE 4LIST OF POINTS

Section 1(1)(ii)

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 GallowayClerk to the Privy Council

(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).