The Turks and Caicos Islands (Territorial Sea) (Amendment) Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2917

Caribbean and north atlantic territories

The Turks and Caicos Islands (Territorial Sea) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

10th October 2007

Coming into force

31st October 2007

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of October 2007

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in Her by the Colonial Boundaries Act 1895(1) and all other powers enabling Her to do so, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Turks and Caicos Islands (Territorial Sea) (Amendment) Order 2007 and shall enter into force on 31st October 2007.

2.  For the Schedule to the Turks and Caicos Islands (Territorial Sea) Order 1989(2) there shall be substituted the following:—

Article 4

“SCHEDULE POINTS BETWEEN NORTH WEST POINT, PROVIDENCIALES AND COMPANY POINT, WEST CAICOS; BETWEEN SOUTH WEST POINT; WEST CAICOS AND TONEY ROCK – SW; AND BETWEEN TONEY ROCK – NE AND DRUM POINT, EAST CAICOS JOINED TO FORM BASELINES

Co-ordinates of latitude and longitude of point referred to on WGS 84 Datum		Name of Feature
1.	21° 51′ 57″N  72° 20′ 00″W	North West Point, Providenciales
2.	21° 42′ 01″N  72° 27′ 42″W	Company Point, West Caicos
	Thence Low–Water Line to
3.	21° 37′ 24″N  72° 28′ 55″W	South West Point, West Caicos
4.	21° 30′ 14″N  72° 12′ 09″W	French Cay
5.	21° 10′ 59″N  71° 48′ 05″W	White Cay
6.	21° 10′ 12″N  71° 43′ 07″W	Shot Cay
7.	21° 10′ 13″N  71° 14′ 34″W	Big Sand Cay, south rock
8.	21° 20′ 15″N  71° 05′ 12″W	Toney Rock – SW
	Thence Low–Water Line to
9.	21° 20′ 20″N  71° 05′ 09″W	Toney Rock – NE
10.	21° 20′ 58″N  71° 04′ 57″W	Martin Pinzon Cay
11.	21° 23′ 02″N  71° 04′ 41″W	Pear Cay, rock–NE
12.	21° 30′ 48″N  71° 07′ 52″W	North East Point, Grand Turk
13.	21° 43′ 28″N  71° 28′ 22″W	Drum Point, East Caicos”

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order amends the Schedule to the Turks and Caicos Islands (Territorial Sea) Order 1989 (as amended previously by S.I. 1998/1260) by changing several of the basepoints following publication of new charts covering the Turks and Caicos Islands (Admiralty Charts 1441, 1450, 3907, 3908 and 3914). These Charts may be obtained from Admiralty Chart agents world-wide, details of which may be obtained from the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Taunton, TA1 2DN.

(1)

1895 c.34.

(2)

S.I. 1989/1996; a revised Schedule was substituted by the Turks and Caicos (Territorial Sea) (Amendment) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1260)