SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

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In section 36 of the M1 Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (marine nature reserves)—

a

in subsection (1) for the words “in or adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limits of territorial waters” there shall be substituted the words “ which are landward of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain is measured or are seaward of those baselines up to a distance of three nautical miles ” ; and

b

in subsection (7) after the definition of “local authority” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“ nautical miles ” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres;