Paragraph 2
In section 1—
in subsections (1)(a), (2), (5) and (6), for “United Kingdom” substitute “Bailiwick of Guernsey”;
after subsection (1) insert—
“(1A)The seaward limit of the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Guernsey—
(a)between Point 1 and Point 13 indicated in Schedule 3 to this Act, consists of a series of straight lines joining, in the sequence given, Points 1 to 13 indicated in Schedule 3 to this Act;
(b)is the median line, where the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Guernsey is measured are less than 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the French Republic is measured;
(c)is in accordance with the Decision of 30 June 1977 and the Decision of 14 March 1978 in the Case Concerning the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republicf1, where those Decisions result in the territorial sea having a breadth of less than 12 nautical miles.”
in subsection (3), for “Secretary of State” substitute “Lieutenant Governor”;
in subsections (4) and (5), for “the coming into force of this section” substitute “19th May 2014”;
in subsections (5) and (6) after “enactment” insert “contained in an Act of Parliament”;
for subsection (7) substitute—
“(7)In this section—
“median line” is a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the French Republic respectively is measured;
“nautical miles” means international nautical miles of 1852 metres;
“straight line” means a loxodromic line; and
all positions given by means of coordinates are defined on the World Geodetic System 1984 Datum.”
Annotations
Footnotes
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U.N. reports of International Arbitral Awards, Volume XVIII, pp. 3-413 available at http://legal.un.org/riaa/vol_18.shtml.