Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1968/891 |
| Year | 1968 |
1968 No. 891
CONTINENTAL SHELF
The Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 19687thJune 1968
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of June 1968
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1964(a) and by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965(b), 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(c), 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. This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1968.
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 area defined in the Schedule to this Order.
W. G. Agnew.
SCHEDULE
Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded:—
(a) on the North and East by a line starting at the following co-ordinates on European Datum:
(1) 55° 20′ 26″ N: 6° 00′ 00″ W, and thence following the seaward limit of the territorial waters off the west coast of Scotland to the co-ordinates numbered (40) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965, and by a line joining the co-ordinates numbered (40), (39) and (38) in the aforesaid Schedule and thence following the seaward limits of the territorial waters off the west coast of England to latitude 50° North;
(b) on the South by a line joining the following co-ordinates on European Datum:
(2) 50° 00′ 00″ N; 5° 44′ 23″ W (3) 50° 00′ 00″ N; 6° 10′ 54″ W; thence following the seaward limit of the territorial waters north of the Isles of Scilly and by a line joining the following co-ordinates on European Datum: (4) 50° 00′ 00″ N: 6° 25′ 53″ W (5) 50° 00′ 00′ N: 7° 00′ 00″ W;
(a) S.I. 1964/697 (1964 II, p. 1340).
(b) S.I. 1965/1531 (1965 II, p. 4447).
(c) 1964 c. 29.
(c) on the West by lines joining the following co-ordinates on European Datum:
(5) 50° 00′ 00″ N: 7° 00′ 00″ W;
(6) 50° 50′ 00″ N: 7° 00′ 00″ W;
(7) 50° 50′ 00″ N: 6° 48′ 00″ W;
(8) 51° 00′ 00″ N: 6° 48′...
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