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Article 2

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(1)

A safety zone is hereby established around the installation specified in Column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being an installation maintained in waters to which section 21 of the Actf1 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to European Datum (1950) specified in Columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

(2)

The prohibition under section 21(3) of the Act on a vessel entering or remaining in a safety zone without the consent of the Secretary of State shall not apply to a vessel entering or remaining in the safety zone established under paragraph (1) above –

(a)

in connection with the laying, inspection, testing, repair, alteration, renewal or removal of any submarine cable or pipe-line in or near that safety zone;

(b)

to provide services for, to transport persons or goods to or from, or under the authority of a government department to inspect, any installation in that safety zone;

(c)

if it is a vessel belonging to a general lighthouse authority performing duties relating to the safety of navigation;

(d)

in connection with the saving or attempted saving of life or property;

(e)

owing to stress of weather; or

(f)

when in distress.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

See section 21(9).