S.I. No. 123/1967:

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (EXTENSION OF PROHIBITED ZONES) ORDER, 1967.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (EXTENSION OF PROHIBITED ZONES) ORDER, 1967.

I, ERSKINE H. CHILDERS, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 9 of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 ( S.I. No. 125 of 1959 ), hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea (Extension of Prohibited Zones) Order, 1967.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 18th day of May, 1967.

3. The prohibited zones for tankers and ships other than tankers specified in the Schedule to the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956), as extended by the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (Extension of Prohibited Zones) Order, 1961 ( S.I. No. 104 of 1961 ), are hereby extended so, as to comprise, in the case of both tankers and ships other than tankers, the sea areas specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE.

(1) In this Schedule " nearest land " means the base line from which the territorial sea of the territory in question is established in accordance with the Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 1958.

(2) All sea areas within 50 miles from the nearest land.

(3) The following sea areas, insofar as they extend more than 50 miles from the nearest land:

(a) Pacific Ocean

The Canadian Western Zone

The Canadian Western Zone shall extend for a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the west coast of Canada.

(b) North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea and Baltic Sea

(i) The North-West Atlantic Zone

The North-West Atlantic Zone shall comprise the sea areas within a line drawn from latitude 38° 47" north, longitude 73° 43' west to latitude 39° 58' north, longitude 68° 34' west thence to latitude 42° 05' north, longitude 64° 37' west thence along the east coast of Canada at a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land.

(ii) The Icelandic Zone

The Icelandic Zone shall extend for a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Iceland.

(iii) The Norwegian, North Sea and Baltic Sea Zone

The Norwegian, North Sea and Baltic Sea Zone shall extend for a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Norway and shall include the whole of the North Sea and of the Baltic Sea and its Gulfs.

(iv) The North-East Atlantic Zone

The North-East Atlantic Zone shall include the sea areas within a line drawn between the following positions:

towards Cape Finisterre at the intersection of the 50-mile limit.

(v) The Spanish Zone

The Spanish Zone shall comprise the areas of the Atlantic Ocean within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Spain and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of Spain.

(vi) The Portuguese Zone

The Portuguese Zone shall comprise the area of the Atlantic Ocean within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Portugal and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of Portugal.

(c) Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas

The Mediterranean and Adriatic Zone

The Mediterranean and Adriatic Zone shall comprise the sea areas within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coasts of each of the territories bordering the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas and shall come into operation in respect of each territory on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of that territory.

(d) Black Sea and Sea of Azov

The Black Sea and Sea of Azov Zone

The Black Sea and Sea of Azov Zone shall comprise the sea areas within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coasts of each of the territories bordering the Black Sea and Sea of Azov and shall come into operation in respect of each territory on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of that territory, provided that the whole of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov shall become a prohibited zone on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into, force in respect of Roumania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

(e) Red Sea

The Red Sea Zone

The Red Sea Zone shall comprise the sea areas within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coasts of each of the territories bordering the Red Sea and shall come into operation in respect of each territory on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of that territory.

(f) Persian Gulf

(i) The Kuwait Zone

The Kuwait Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Kuwait.

(ii) The Saudi Arabian Zone

The Saudi Arabian Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Saudi Arabia and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of Saudi Arabia.

(g) Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean

(i) The Arabian Sea Zone

The Arabian Sea Zone shall comprise the sea areas within a line drawn between the following positions:

and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of India.

(ii) The Bay of Bengal Coastal Zone

The Bay of Bengal Coastal Zone shall comprise the sea areas between the nearest land and a line drawn between the following positions:

and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of India.

(iii) The Malagasy Zone

The Malagasy Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Madagascar west of the meridians of Cape d'Ambre in the north and of Cape Ste. Marie in the south and within a distance of 150 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Madagascar east of these meridians, and shall come into operation when the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of Madagascar.

(h) Australia

The Australian Zone

The Australian Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 150 miles from the nearest land along the coasts of Australia, except off the north and west coasts of the Australian mainland between the point opposite Thursday Island and the point on the west coast at 20° south latitude.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of May, 1967.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order extends the zones where ships are prohibited from discharging oil into the sea.