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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia
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MARITIME AREAS ACT
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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)
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PART 1
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Maritime Areas Act.
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1. Short title
2. Definitions
3. Territorial sea
4. Baseline of territorial sea
5. Internal waters
6. Contiguous zone
7. Continental Shelf
8. Exclusive economic zone
9. Delimitation of continental shelf or exclusive economic zone in certain cases
10. Sovereignty in respect of territorial sea
11. Rights in respect of contiguous zone
12. Rights in respect of exclusive economic zone and continental shelf
14. Prohibited activities
15. Interpretation
16. Innocent passage
17. Transit passage
18. Engaging in proscribed activities prohibited
19. Charts of maritime areas
20. Evidence of charts
21. Publicity with respect to charts
22. Jurisdiction
23. Apprehension of certain offenders
24. Arrest on board foreign vessel in territorial sea
25. Certificate of Attorney General
26. Civil jurisdiction
27. Civil jurisdiction in relation to foreign vessels in territorial sea
28. Application of enactments to maritime area
29. Regulations
30. Saving of Agreement
Maritime Areas (Declaration of Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone) (Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Order – Section 9(4)
13. Rights to lay cables and pipelines