{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-territorial-sea-order-2007/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-territorial-sea-order-2007/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2141",
  "legislation_title": "The Virgin Islands (Territorial Sea) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-territorial-sea-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order extends the boundaries of the British Overseas Territory of the Virgin Islands so as to include, as territorial sea, the sea within twelve nautical miles of the baselines of the Virgin Islands, together with its seabed and subsoil, and makes other provisions in this connection. In particular, it defines the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured as generally the low-water line, except where there are fringing reefs or bays.\nThe limit adjacent to the US Virgin Islands is constituted by geodesic lines joining the points in the Schedule and follows the line defined by the Treaty of 5 November 1993 between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on the Delimitation in the Caribbean of a Maritime Boundary Relating to Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2141/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:47:33.493600+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."
}