The Territorial Sea (Amendment) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1628

TERRITORIAL SEA

The Territorial Sea (Amendment) Order 1996

Made

26th June 1996

Coming into force

1st August 1996

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of June 1996

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 1(1)(b) of the Territorial Sea Act 1987(1) and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, 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 (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st August 1996.

2.  For the Schedule to the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964(2) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out below:

SCHEDULE POINTS BETWEEN CAPE WRATH AND THE MULL OF KINTYRE JOINED BY GEODESICS TO FORM BASELINES

	Latitude North	Longitude West	Name of Feature
1.	58° 37' 40"	05° 00' 13"	Cape Wrath.
2.	58° 31' 12"	06° 15' 41"	Lith-Sgeir.
3.	58° 30' 44"	06° 16' 55"	Gealltuig.
4.	58° 29' 09"	06° 20' 17"	Dell Rock.
5.	58° 18' 27"	06° 47' 45"	Tiumpan.
6.	58° 17' 36"	06° 52' 43"	Màs Sgeir.
7.	58° 17' 09"	06° 55' 20"	Old Hill.
8.	58° 14' 30"	07° 02' 06"	Gallan Head.
9.	58° 14' 02"	07° 02' 58"	Islet SW of Gallan Head.
10.	58° 10' 39"	07° 06' 54"	Eilean Molach.
11.	57° 59' 08"	07° 17' 42"	Gasker.
12.	57° 41' 19"	07° 43' 13"	Haskeir Eagach.
13.	57° 32' 22"	07° 43' 58"	Huskeiran.
14.	57° 14' 33"	07° 27' 44"	Rubha Ardvule.
15.	57° 00' 50"	07° 31' 42"	Greian Head.
16.	56° 58' 07"	07° 33' 24"	Doirlinn Head.
17	56° 56' 57"	07° 34' 17"	Aird a' Chaolais.
18.	56° 56' 05"	07° 34' 55"	Biruaslum.
19.	56° 49' 21"	07° 39' 32"	Guarsay Mór.
20.	56° 48' 00"	07° 39' 57"	Sròn an Dùin.
21.	56° 47' 07"	07° 39' 36"	Skate Point.
22.	56° 19' 17"	07° 06' 55"	Skerryvore.
23.	56° 07' 58"	06° 38' 00"	Dubh Artach.
24.	55° 41' 36"	06° 32' 02"	Frenchman’s Rocks.
25.	55° 40' 24"	06° 30' 59"	Orsay Island.
26.	55° 35' 24"	06° 20' 18"	Mull of Oa.
27.	55° 17' 57"	05° 47' 54"	Mull of Kintyre.

3.  The positions of points 1 to 27 are defined by co-ordinates of latitude and longitude on Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (1936) Datum (OSGB 36).

4.  The Territorial Waters (Amendment) Order in Council 1979(3) is hereby revoked.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order amends the Schedule to the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964 by redefining specified points between Cape Wrath and the Mull of Kintyre which are joined by geodesics to form baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent thereto is measured. The amendments make minor changes to two points which have been shown to be necessary by the publication of a new larger scale chart of part of the area.

(1)

1987 c. 49.

(2)

1965 III, p. 6452A; a revised Schedule was substituted by the Territorial Water (Amendment) Order in Council 1979.

(3)

1979 II, p. 2866.