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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

6In section 36 of the [1981 c. 69.] Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (marine nature reserves)—

(a)in subsection (1) for the words "in or adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limits of territorial waters" there shall be substituted the words "which are landward of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain is measured or are seaward of those baselines up to a distance of three nautical miles"; and

(b)in subsection (7) after the definition of "local authority" there shall be inserted the following definition—