Maritime Zones (Amendment) Act, 2009 (No. 5 of 2009)

29 (c) Maritime Zones (Amendment) Act, 20093 (Act No. 5 of 2009) AN ACT to amend the Maritime Zones Act (Act 2 of 1999) Enacted by the President and the National Assembly. 1. This Act may be cited as the Maritime Zones (Amendment) Act, 2009 2. The Maritime Zones Act is amended – (a) in section 2 – (i) by inserting before the definition of “archipelagic waters” the following definition – “archipelagic State” means a State constituted wholly by one or more archipelagos and may include other islands”; (ii) by inserting in the definition of “low water line” the words “or reefs” after the word “coast”; (b) in section 3(1) by repealing the following words “The baselines for the purpose of this Act shall be” and substituting therefore the following words “Seychelles is an archipelagic State and has defined the baselines for the purpose of delimiting its maritime zones as follows”; (c) in section 3(1)(b) – (i) by repealing the word “straight”; (ii) by repealing the following comma and words “,the archipelagic baselines” after the words “subsection (2)”; (iii) by adding a full stop “.” after the words “subsection (2)”; (d) in section 3(2) – (i) by repealing the words “as baselines straight” after the following word and comma “Order,”; (ii) by adding the words “as baselines” after the word “baselines”; (e) in section 3(3), by repealing the words “straight archipelagic” after the word “the” in the third place where it occurs. 3. The Maritime Zones (Amendment) Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st July, 2000. I certify that this is a correct copy of the Bill which was passed by the National Assembly on the 31st March, 2009. Clerk of the National Assembly 3 Transmitted through a note verbale from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Seychelles, addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, dated 5 May 2009. Maritime Zones Act, 1999 (Act No. 2 of 1999) was published in Law of the Sea Bulletin No. 48 (2002), page 18. 30 (d) Maritime Zones (Baselines) Amendment Regulations, 2009 (S.I. 35 of 2009)4 In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Maritime Zones Act 1999, the President makes the following Regulations – 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Maritime Zones (Baselines) (Amendment) Regulations, 2009. 2. The Maritime Zones (Baselines) Regulations, 2008 are amended – (a) in Schedule 1, under the heading “4.0 ALDABRA, ASSOMPTION ARCHIPELAGO”, (i) in the column headed “POINTS”, by repealing the letter “S” in that word “POINTS”; (ii) by repealing the item “09 23 24.06” in the column headed “LATITUDE SOUTH” and substituting therefore the item “09 24 06.00”; (b) in Schedule 2, under the heading “1.18 Ile du Nord”, by repealing – (i) in the column head “POINT”, the item “SQ4”; (ii) in the column headed “LATITUDE SOUTH”, the item “04 27 57.50”; (iii) in the column headed “LONGITUDE EAST”, the item “55 12 54.25”; (c) in schedule 2, under the heading “1.19 Frégate” by repealing – (i) in the column headed “POINT”, the item “E”; (ii) in the column headed “LATITUDE SOUTH”, the item “04 21 04.75”; (iii) in the column headed “LONGITUDE EAST”, the item “55 55 17.74”. MADE this 16th day of February, 2009. JAMES A. 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