{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-amendment-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-amendment-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1628",
  "legislation_title": "The Territorial Sea (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Order amends the Schedule to the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964 by redefining specified points between Cape Wrath and the Mull of Kintyre which are joined by geodesics to form baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent thereto is measured. The amendments make minor changes to two points which have been shown to be necessary by the publication of a new larger scale chart of part of the area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1628/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:47.920723+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}