Fisheries Zone Proclamation (Cap. 105)

Fishery Limits CAP. 105 7 Revision Date: 15 May 1998 [Subsidiary] LAWS OF TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS FISHERIES ZONE PROCLAMATION (Legal Notice 14 of 1978) I, JOHN CLIFFORD STRONG, Governor in and over the Turks and Caicos Islands, acting in pursuance of instructions given by Her Majesty QUEEN ELIZABETH II, through a Secretary of State, do hereby declare and proclaim that— There is established for the Turks and Caicos Islands a fisheries zone having as its inner boundary the outer limits of the territorial sea of the Turks and Caicos Islands and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so that each point on the line is 200 nautical miles from the nearest point of the low water line on the coast or other baseline from which the territorial sea is measured, or, unless another line is declared by Proclamation, the median line where this is less than 200 nautical miles from the baseline. The median line is a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of the baselines of the Turks and Caicos Islands and of corresponding baselines of other countries or territories. Her Majesty will exercise the same jurisdiction in respect of fisheries in the said fisheries zone as She has in respect of fisheries in the territorial waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands subject to such provisions as may be made by law for the control and regulation of fishing within the said zone. Given at Grand Turk this 24th day of November, 1978 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! INDEX Page Fisheries TCI’s Limits ...................................................... 1 Fishing Powers of fishery officers ................................. 4 TCI’s Limits ...................................................... 1 Zone proclaimed ............................................... 7