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Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999

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1999 No. 2031

CONTINENTAL SHELF

The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999

Made 21th July 1999

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(3).

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of July 1999

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 19971certain 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 19642and 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:–

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation...

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.

S-2 The area defined in the Schedule to this Order is hereby...

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

SCHEDULE

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded by a line joining the following co-ordinates on European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1989 (ETRF89)

(1)

63° 53'.224N

00° 29'.444W

(2)

63° 40'.649N

00° 47'.736W

(3)

61° 59'.233N

03° 03'.325W

(4)

61° 52'.114N

03° 11'.729W

(5)

61° 21'.611N

03° 47'.898W

(6)

61° 07'.651N

03° 59'.619W

(7)

61° 04'.449N

04° 02'.425W

(8)

61° 02'.757N

04° 03'.859W

(9)

60° 54'.979N

04° 10'.497W

(10)

60° 51'.809N

04° 14'.008W

(11)

60° 47'.717N

04° 18'.541W

(12)

60° 24'.077N

04° 44'.272W

(13)

60° 21'.101N

04° 56'.672W

(14)

60° 18'.754N

05° 24'.195W

(15)

59° 56'.450N

09° 00'.660W

(16)

60° 00'.951N

10° 20'.853W

(17)

60° 02'.137N

10° 50'.778W

(18)

60° 02'.833N

11° 16'.458W

(19)

60° 07'.306N

12° 17'.622W

(20)

60° 09'.031N

13° 16'.199W

(21)

59° 49'.948N

13° 16'.199W

and

i(i) the co-ordinates numbered (25) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1971, and

ii(ii) the co-ordinates numbered (42) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965, and

iii(iii) the co-ordinates numbered (27) and (26) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982, and

iv(iv) the co-ordinates numbered (44) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of...

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