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The Territorial Sea (Limits) (Amendment) Order 2013

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2013-12-11

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Made: 11th December 2013

Coming into force: 31st March 2014

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of December 2013Present,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) (Amendment) Order 2013 and comes into force on 31st March 2014.

2

The Territorial Sea (Limits) Order 1989[^f00002] is amended as follows:

(i) Article 4(b) shall be amended to read: (b) all positions given by means of coordinates are defined on World Geodetic System 1984 Datum (WGS84) (ii) The Schedule to the Order shall be amended to read as in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

LIST OF POINTS	LIST OF POINTS	LIST OF POINTS
I.	50o 49’.463 N	001o 15’.810 E
II.	50o 53’.732 N	001o 16’.885 E
III.	50o 56’.948 N	001o 21’.335 E
IV.	51o 02’.265N	001o 32’.802 E
V.	51o 05’.915 N	001o 43’.437 E
VI.	51o 11’.962 N	001o 53’.253 E

Signed

Richard Tilbrook — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Territorial Sea (Limits) Order 1989 to reflect the agreement between the United Kingdom and France that the coordinates of the points defining the territorial sea boundary between the United Kingdom and France in the Straits of Dover should be reformulated in World Geodetic Datum System 1984 (WGS 84). The agreement between the United Kingdom and France is constituted by the Exchange of Letters done at Paris on 20 April 2011 (Cm 8146).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1987 c.49.

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