Section 7 Power to make byelaws over sea areas.

Where in the case of any area of sea, tidal water or shore used or to be used for defence purposes by . . . F1 a Secretary of State, . . . F2 being an area lying wholly or partly within the limits of the territorial waters of the United Kingdom, it appears to that Minister to be necessary or expedient to make provision for regulating the use of that area for those purposes or for securing the public against danger arising from that use, the powers conferred by subsection (2) of section two of the M1Military Lands Act, 1900 (which enables byelaws to be made in relation to such areas where they abut on, or are subject to rifle or artillery practice from, land appropriated or used for defence purposes) shall be exercisable in relation to the area in question whether or not it abuts on or is subject to such practice from any such land.