The National Heritage (Territorial Waters Adjacent to England) Order 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/2427
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the National Heritage (Territorial Waters Adjacent to England) Order 2002, and shall come into force on 15th October 2002.

Section 2 Interpretation

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.

Section 3 Boundaries—internal waters and territorial sea—Scotland

For the purposes of section 33(9) of the National Heritage Act 1983, the boundaries between waters which are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to England 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 the co-ordinates set out in Part II of that Schedule.

Section 4 Boundaries—internal waters and territorial sea—Wales

For the purposes of section 33(9) of the National Heritage Act 1983 the boundary between those parts of the sea within the Severn and Dee Estuaries which are to be treated as adjacent to England and those which are not shall be, in each case, a line drawn between the co-ordinates set out in Part III of the Schedule to this Order.