Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 and shall come into force on the principal appointed day(2).

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“co-ordinate” means a co-ordinate on the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 1936 Datum;

“line”, in relation to any list of co-ordinates in this Order, means a loxodromic line.

Boundaries – internal waters and territorial sea

3.  For the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, the boundaries between waters which are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland and those which are not, shall be–

(a)off the east coast of Great Britain, a line joining the co-ordinates set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, and

(b)off the west coast of Great Britain a line joining,

(i)the co-ordinates set out in Section 1 of Part II of that Schedule, and then

(ii)the seaward limit of the United Kingdom territorial sea, and then

(iii)the co-ordinates set out in Section 2 of Part II of that Schedule.

Boundaries – sea within British fishery limits

4.  For the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, the boundaries between waters which are to be treated as sea within British fishery limits adjacent to Scotland and those which are not, shall be–

(a)off the east coast of Great Britain,

(i)the line referred to in article 3(a) above, and then

(ii)a line joining the co-ordinates set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(b)off the west coast of Great Britain,

(i)the line referred to in article 3(b) above, and then

(ii)the seaward limit of the United Kingdom territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland between the following co-ordinates–

Article 3

SCHEDULE 1BOUNDARIES – INTERNAL WATERS AND TERRITORIAL SEA

PART IBOUNDARY OFF THE EAST COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN

PART IIBOUNDARY OFF THE WEST COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN

Section 1

Solway Firth

Section 2

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2BOUNDARY – SEA WITHIN BRITISH FISHERY LIMITS

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order describes for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998–

(a)the boundaries between waters which are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland and those which are not (article 3) and

(b)the boundaries between waters which are to be treated as sea within British fishery limits adjacent to Scotland and those which are not (article 4).

A map showing the line of the boundaries for illustrative purposes only is appended to this note.