Territorial Sea Act 1987

2 Enactments and instruments not affected. U.K.

(1) Except in so far as Her Majesty may by Order in Council otherwise provide, nothing in section 1 above shall affect the operation of any enactment contained in a local Act passed before the date on which that section comes into force.

(2) Nothing in section 1 above, or in any Order in Council under that section or subsection (1) above, shall affect the operation of so much of any enactment passed or instrument made before the date on which that section comes into force as for the time being settles the limits within which any harbour authority or port health authority has jurisdiction or is able to exercise any power.

(3) Where any area which is not part of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom becomes part of that sea by virtue of section 1 above or an Order in Council under that section, subsection (2) of section 1 of the M1 Continental Shelf Act 1964 (vesting and exercise of rights with respect to coal) shall continue, on and after the date on which section 1 above or that Order comes into force, to have effect with respect to coal in that area as if the area were not part of the territorial sea.

(4) Nothing in section 1 above, or in any Order in Council under that section, shall affect—

(a) any regulations made under section 6 of the M2 Petroleum (Production) Act 1934 before the date on which that section or Order comes into force; or

(b) any licences granted under the said Act of 1934 before that date or granted on or after that date in pursuance of regulations made under that section before that date.

(5) In this section—

• “coal” has the same meaning as in the M3 Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946;

• “harbour authority” means a harbour authority within the meaning of the M4 Harbours Act 1964 or the M5 Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970; and

• “port health authority” means a port health authority for the purposes of the M6 Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.

Marginal Citations

M1 1964 c. 29.

M2 1934 c. 36.

M3 1946 c. 59.

M4 1964 c. 40.

M5 1970 c. 1. (N.I.).

M6 1984 c. 22.