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The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2001

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Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3670

CONTINENTAL SHELF

The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2001

Made

14th November 2001

Coming into force

6th December 2001

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of November 2001

Present

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964(1) and of 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.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2001.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th December 2001.

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.

3.  Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (Consolidation) Order 2000(2) is amended as follows:

(a)in the third box of the first column, substitute “Point No. 80 to Point No. 157”.

(b)in the fourth box of the first column, substitute “Point No. 158 to Point No. 242”.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded by a geodesic line joining the following co-ordinates on World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84)

(1) 53° 52'.224N 05° 49'.558W

and the co-ordinates numbered (240), (241), (242) and (243) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (Consolidation) Order 2000

thence,

South Westward along the outer limit of the territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland to the co-ordinates numbered (1) in this Schedule.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates a further area of continental shelf in the Irish Sea as an area in which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable. The Order also corrects an error in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (Consolidation) Order 2000.

(2)

S.I. 2000/3062.

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