Regulation 2 Extent and application

(1)

This Part and Part 3 extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

(2)

Part 2 extends to England and Wales.

(3)

Part 2 applies in relation to—

(a)

England, and

(b)

the sea adjacent to England out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea.

(4)

In this regulation “the sea adjacent to England” is so much of the sea adjacent to Great Britain as—

(a)

is not the sea adjacent to Scotland, and

(b)

does not form part of Wales.

(5)

For the purposes of paragraph (4)—

(a)

the sea adjacent to Scotland has the same meaning as the internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland has by virtue of section 126(2) of the Scotland Act 1998^f1;

(b)

Wales has the meaning given by section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1998 c. 46. The boundaries between which waters are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland and those which are not are set out in S.I. 1999/1126.
f2: 2006 c. 32.