Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 2031 of 1999)

Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2031 file:///D/HTML/uk16718.htm[16.01.2025 11:26:21] Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2031 The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999 © Crown Copyright 1999 All Crown copyrights are reserved. The text is reproducible in all media and formats and without restriction provided that the text is reproduced accurately; is not used in a misleading manner; and is accompanied by the following acknowledgement: Crown copyright 1999 with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office It should be noted that the right to reproduce the text of Statutory Instruments does not extend to the Royal Arms and the Queen's Printer imprints. The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made. The authoritative version is the Queen's Printer copy published by The Stationery Office Limited as the The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999, ISBN 0 11 082983 2, £1.50 sterling. For details of how to obtain an official copy see How to obtain The Stationery Office Limited titles. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 1999 No. 2031 CONTINENTAL SHELF The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999 Made 21st July 1999 Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(3). At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of July 1999 Present, The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council Whereas by the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 1997[1] certain areas are designated as areas within which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources may be exercised: And whereas it is expedient that a further such area should be so designated: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964[2] 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: http://www.national-publishing.co.uk/obtain.htm http://www.national-publishing.co.uk/obtain.htm Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2031 file:///D/HTML/uk16718.htm[16.01.2025 11:26:21] 1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1999. (2) This Order and the Orders recited in the preamble to this Order may be cited together as the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Orders 1964 to 1999. (3) This Order shall come into force on 12th August 1999, or on the date on which the Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark together with the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands, on the one hand, and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, relating to Maritime Delimitation in the area between the Faeroe Islands and the United Kingdom enters into force, whichever is the later. The date on which the said Agreement enters into force shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes. 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. A.K. Galloway Clerk of the Privy Council SCHEDULE Article 2 Article 2 of this Order applies to the area bounded by a line joining the following co ordinates on European Terrestrial Reference Frame 1989 (ETRF89) (1) 63° 53'.224N 00° 29'.444W (2) 63° 40'.649N 00° 47'.736W (3) 61° 59'.233N 03° 03'.325W (4) 61° 52'.114N 03° 11'.729W (5) 61° 21'.611N 03° 47'.898W (6) 61° 07'.651N 03° 59'.619W (7) 61° 04'.449N 04° 02'.425W (8) 61° 02'.757N 04° 03'.859W (9) 60° 54'.979N 04° 10'.497W (10) 60° 51'.809N 04° 14'.008W (11) 60° 47'.717N 04° 18'.541W (12) 60° 24'.077N 04° 44'.272W (13) 60° 21'.101N 04° 56'.672W (14) 60° 18'.754N 05° 24'.195W (15) 59° 56'.450N 09° 00'.660W Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2031 file:///D/HTML/uk16718.htm[16.01.2025 11:26:21] (16) 60° 00'.951N 10° 20'.853W (17) 60° 02'.137N 10° 50'.778W (18) 60° 02'.833N 11° 16'.458W (19) 60° 07'.306N 12° 17'.622W (20) 60° 09'.031N 13° 16'.199W (21) 59° 49'.948N 13° 16'.199W and (i) the co-ordinates numbered (25) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1971, and (ii) the co-ordinates numbered (42) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965, and (iii) the co-ordinates numbered (27) and (26) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982, and (iv) the co-ordinates numbered (44) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965, and (v) the co-ordinates numbered (1) and (2) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 1997, and (vi) the co-ordinates numbered (46) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1965, and (vii) the co-ordinates numbered (23) and (22) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982, and (viii) the co-ordinates numbered (2) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1978, and (ix) the co-ordinates numbered (2) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1976, and (x) the co-ordinates numbered (21) and (20) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982, and (xi) the co-ordinates numbered (43) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1971, and (xii) the co-ordinates numbered (22) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1979, and (xiii) the co-ordinates numbered (19, (18), (17), (16) and (15) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1982, and (xiv) the co-ordinates numbered (18) and (17) in the Schedule to the Continental Shelf (Designation of Additional Areas) Order 1979, and thence to the co-ordinates numbered (1) in this Schedule. Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2031 file:///D/HTML/uk16718.htm[16.01.2025 11:26:21] EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order) This Order designates a further area of the continental shelf to the north of Scotland up to the agreed continental shelf boundary set out in the Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark together with the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands, on the one hand, and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, relating to the Maritime Delimitation in the area between the Faeroe Islands and the United Kingdom (Cm. 4373), as an area in which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the seabed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable. Notes: [1] S.I. 1964/697, 1965/1531, 1968/891, 1971/594, 1974/1489, 1976/1153, 1977/1871, 1978/178, 1978/1029, 1979/1447, 1982/1072, 1987/1265, 1989/2398, 1993/599, 1993/1782, 1997/268.back [2] 1964 c. 29.back ISBN 0 11 082983 2