Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 3670
CONTINENTAL SHELF
The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2001
Made
14th November 2001
Coming into force
6th December 2001
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of November 2001
Present
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2001.
(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th December 2001.
2. The area defined in the Schedule to this Order is hereby designated as an area within which the rights of the United Kingdom outside territorial waters with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable.
3. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (Consolidation) Order 2000( 2 ) is amended as follows:
(a) in the third box of the first column, substitute “Point No. 80 to Point No. 157”.
(b) in the fourth box of the first column, substitute “Point No. 158 to Point No. 242”.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
SCHEDULE
Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded by a geodesic line joining the following co-ordinates on World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84)
(1) 53° 52'.224N 05° 49'.558W
and the co-ordinates numbered (240), (241), (242) and (243) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) (Consolidation) Order 2000
thence,
South Westward along the outer limit of the territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland to the co-ordinates numbered (1) in this Schedule.
1964 c. 29 .
S.I. 2000/3062 .