Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (No. 2) Order 1993

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1993/1782
Year1993

1993No. 1782

CONTINENTAL SHELF

The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (No. 2) Order

1993

20thJuly1993

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of July 1993

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 1993 ( a) certain areas are designated as areas within which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources may be exercised:

And whereas it is expedient that a further such area should be so designated:

Now therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 ( b) 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) (No. 2) Order 1993.

(2) This Order shall be included in the Orders which, in accordance with the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1993, may be cited together as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 1993.

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.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded by a line joining the following co-ordinates on European Datum

(1) 51 48' 18"N 2 28' 54"E
                (2) 51 36' 47"N 2 15' 12"E
                (3) 51 33' 28"N 2 14' 18"E
                (4) 51 30' 14"N 2 07' 18"E
                (5) 51 20' 11"N 2 02' 18"E
                

and the co-ordinates numbered (13) and (14) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982 and the co-ordinates numbered (42), (41) and (40) in Article 2(a) of the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1964 and the co-ordinates numbered (26) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965 and the co-ordinates numbered (1) in this Schedule.

(a) S.I. 1964/697, 1965/1531, 1968/891, 1971/594, 1974/1489, 1976/1153, 1977/1871, 1978/178, 1029, 1979/1447, 1982/1072, 1987/1265, 1989/2398, 1993/599.

(b) 1964 c.29.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates a further area of the continental shelf in the southern North Sea as an area in which the...

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