The Territorial Sea (Limits) Order 1989

Made: 15th March 1989

Coming into force: 6th April 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of March 1989 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 1(2) of the Territorial Sea Act 1987[^f00001], 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 Territorial Sea (Limits) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 6th April 1989.

2

The seaward limit of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom between Point 1 and Point 6 indicated in the Schedule to this Order shall consist of a series of straight lines joining, in the sequence given, Points 1 to 6 indicated in the Schedule to this Order.

3

The seaward limit of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom shall be the median line where the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom is measured are less than 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man is measured.

4

In this Order–

• (a) “straight line” means a loxodromic line;

• (b) all positions given by means of co-ordinates are defined on European Datum (1st Adjustment 1950);

• (c) “median line” is a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man respectively is measured.

5

The Territorial Sea (Limits) Order 1987[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — LIST OF POINTS

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the seaward limit of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom in the Straits of Dover and in the vicinity of the Isle of Man. The limit in the Straits of Dover is constituted by straight lines joining the points indicated in the Schedule and follows the line defined in the Agreement of 2nd November 1988 between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the French Republic (Cm. 557) relating to the Delimitation of the Territorial Sea in the Straits of Dover. The limit in the vicinity of the Isle of Man is the median line.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1987 c. 49.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1987/1269.