The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1989

Made: 19th December 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1989 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964[^f00005] and section 3 of the Petroleum Royalties (Relief) and Continental Shelf Act 1989[^f00006] and of all B 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) Order 1989.

• (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 1989.

2

The areas defined in Schedule 1 to this Order are hereby designated as areas 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.

3

The Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1971 shall have effect with the omission from area (3) as defined therein of the area defined in Schedule 2 to this Order.

4

The Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1974 shall have effect with the omission from the area defined therein of the areas defined in Schedule 3 to this Order.

SCHEDULE

1

The following are the areas to which Article 2 of this Order applies:

• (A) The area bounded by a line joining the following co-ordinates

2

The co-ordinates numbered (1) to (130) in this Schedule are on WGS84 Datum.

SCHEDULE 2

Article 3 of this Order applies to the area bounded by lines as described in Column 2 joining the co-ordinates on WGS84 Datum specified in Column 1:

SCHEDULE 3

Article 4 of this Order applies to the areas listed in Column 1 bounded by lines as described in Column 3 joining the co-ordinates on WGS84 Datum specified in Column 2:

Signed

G I de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order:

• (a) designates further areas of the continental shelf in the Irish Sea, in the South-Western Approaches and to the west of Scotland, up to Lines A and B defined in the Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland signed on 7th November 1988, as areas in which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercised; and

• (b) amends the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Orders 1971 and 1974 by omitting therefrom certain areas situated on the Irish side of Line B,

thereby giving effect to that Agreement.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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

[^f00002]: Cm. 535.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1971/594

[^f00004]: S.I. 1974/1489

[^f00005]: 1964 c. 29

[^f00006]: 1989 c. 1; section 3 was amended by section 1 of the Continental Shelf Act 1989 (c. 35)