1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999.

(2) This Order and the Orders recited in the preamble to this Order may be cited together as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 1999.

(3) This Order shall come into force on 12th August 1999, or on the date on which the Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark together with the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands, on the one hand, and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, relating to Maritime Delimitation in the area between the Faeroe Islands and the United Kingdom enters into force, whichever is the later.

• The date on which the said Agreement enters into force shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.  The area defined in the Schedule to this Order is hereby designated as an area within which the rights of the United Kingdom outside territorial waters with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council