The Continental Shelf (Designation of Areas) Order 2013

This Order replaces the two extant Orders made under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964, designating the areas of the continental shelf within which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the seabed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable. Under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, an exclusive economic zone (which may extend to 200 nautical miles from coastal baselines) is being declared around the United Kingdom on 31 March 2014, and it is therefore more appropriate that the areas designated under section 1(7) of the 1964 Act should be the same as those which form part of the exclusive economic zone, together with any areas of continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the United Kingdom’s baselines within which the United Kingdom may exercise such rights.