Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1971/594 |
1971 No. 594
CONTINENTAL SHELF
The Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 19715thApril 1971
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 5th day of April 1971
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1964(a), the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965(b) and the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1968(c) certain areas outside the territorial waters of the United Kingdom 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:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by the Continental Shelf Act 1964(d) 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 Additional Areas) Order 1971.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(e) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. The rights exercisable by the United Kingdom outside territorial waters with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources may be exercised in the areas defined in the Schedule to this Order.
W. G. Agnew.
SCHEDULE
The following are the areas to which Article 2 of this Order applies:
(1) The area bounded:
(a) On the north and east by a line joining the co-ordinates numbered (6), (5) and (4) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1968, thence following the seaward limits of territorial waters west of the Isles of Scilly to the following co-ordinates on European Datum:
(1) 49° 50′ 00″ N; 6° 29′ 40″ W.
(a) S.I. 1964/697 (1964 II, p. 1340).
(b) S.I. 1965/1531 (1965 II, p. 4447).
(c) S.I. 1968/891 (1968 II, p. 2371).
(d) 1964 c. 29.
(e) 1889 c. 63.
(b) On the south and west by a line joining the co-ordinates numbered (1) in this Schedule and the following co-ordinates on European Datum:
(2) 49° 50′ 00″ N; 8° 36′ 00″ W;
(3) 50° 00′ 00″ N; 8° 36′ 00″ W;
(4) 50° 00′ 00″ N; 8° 24′ 00″ W;
(5) 50° 10′ 00″ N; 8° 24′ 00″ W;
(6) 50° 10′ 00″ N; 8° 12′ 00″ W;
(7) 50° 20′ 00″ N; 8° 12′ 00″ W;
(8) 50° 20′ 00″ N; 7° 48′ 00″ W;
(9) 50° 30′ 00″ N; 7° 48′ 00″ W;
(10) 50° 30′ 00″ N; 7° 36′ 00″ W;
(11) 50° 40′ 00″ N; 7° 36′ 00″ W;
(12) 50°...
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