Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Amendment Act No. 14 of 2011

20Ll Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Amendment No. 14 1. Title 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Publication and cerlification of documents 2011, No. 14 matters. (13 December 2011 BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Title - This Act is the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone (Amendment) Act 2011 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Teritorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977 (herein relerred to as "the principal Act"). 2. Commencement - This Act comes into force on the day it is assented to by the Queen' s Representative. 3. Interpretation - Section 2 of the principal Act is amended by repealing the definition of "Low-water mark". 4. Publication and cerlification of documents - Section 27 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted: "27. Pr - (1) The Minister maY prepare and publish documents, including lists of coordinates, charts, maps, diagrams and databases, depicting or indicating the low water mark, baseline of the territorial sea, or any other matter relating to the limits of the territorial sea and exclusive economic zone of the Cook Islands. Price $1.50 201L, No. 14 RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Government -2011. Printed by and under the authority of the Cook Islands Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone (Amendment) (2) In any proceedings in any couft, a document purporting to be certified by the Minister as a true copy of a document mentioned ln subsection (1) is admissible in evidence of the matters depicted or indicated in the document in relation to the low water mark, baserine of the territorial sea, or any other matter relating to the limits of the territorial sea and exclusive economic zone of the Cook Islands." This Act is administered by the Ministry of Marine Resources