Explanatory note

These Regulations update the Antarctic Regulations 1995. They replace Schedules 1 and 2 to those Regulations with new schedules containing up-to-date lists, coordinates and descriptions of all restricted areas and historic sites and monuments in force under the Antarctic Treaty System, and as agreed at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings up to and including the thirty-eighth meeting held at Sofia in June 2015^f1.

These Regulations also delete regulation 16 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Antarctic Regulations 1995 because there are currently no places protected under the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources^f2 in operation.