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MARITIME AREAS ACT
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2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Maritime Areas Act.
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1. Short title
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
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)
ACT
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
2. Definitions
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)
1. Citation
2. Declaration of continental shelf and exclusive economic zone
Schedule
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)
1. Citation
2. Declaration of continental shelf and exclusive economic zone
Schedule