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2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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1. Citation

This Order may be cited as the Maritime Areas (Declaration of Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone) (Saint Lucia and Barbados) Order.

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

13. Rights to lay cables and pipelines

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)

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

PART 2 MARITIME AREAS OF SAINT LUCIA

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

PART 3 RIGHTS IN RESPECT OF MARITIME AREAS OF SAINT LUCIA

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

13. Rights to lay cables and pipelines

14. Prohibited activities

PART 4 INNOCENT PASSAGE AND TRANSIT PASSAGE

15. Interpretation

16. Innocent passage

17. Transit passage

18. Engaging in proscribed activities prohibited

PART 5 CHARTS AND GEOGRAPHICAL CO-ORDINATES

19. Charts of maritime areas

20. Evidence of charts

21. Publicity with respect to charts

PART 6 JURISDICTION OF COURTS AND OTHER LEGAL MATTERS

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

PART 7 REGULATIONS, SAVING AND AMENDMENTS

29. Regulations

30. Saving of Agreement

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Maritime Areas (Declaration of Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone) (Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Order – Section 9(4) (Statutory Instrument 1/2019)

2. Declaration of continental shelf and exclusive economic zone

Maritime Areas (Declaration of Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone) (Saint Lucia and Barbados) Order – Section 9(4) (Statutory Instruments 2/2019 and 60/2019)

2. Declaration of continental shelf and exclusive economic zone