ACT No. XXIX of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zone Act, Cap. 226.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

8th August, 2014

ACT No. XXIX of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zone

Act, Cap. 226.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Territorial Waters and

Contiguous Zone (Amendment) Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read

and construed as one with the Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zone

Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

Article 3 of the principal Act shall be substituted by the

following

" Extent of

(1) Save

as

hereinafter

territorial

provided, the breadth of the territorial waters

waters.

of Malta shall be twelve nautical miles

measured from baselines determined using

the method of straight baselines joining

appropriate points on the low-water line,

defined by the coordinates in the Schedule.

(2) For the purposes of the Fisheries

Conservation and Management Act and of

any other law relating to fishing, whether

made before or after this Act, the territorial

waters of Malta shall, with respect to the

exercise of sovereign rights for the purpose of

exploring and exploiting, conserving and

managing the living and, or non-living natural

resources therein, extend to a breadth of

twenty-five nautical miles from the baselines

from which the breadth of the territorial

waters is measured, and, for the purposes

aforesaid,

jurisdiction

shall

extend

accordingly.".

3. Immediately after article 8 of the principal Act, there shall Addition of new

Schedule to the

be added the following new Schedule

principal Act.

"SCHEDULE

(Article 3)

The appropriate points, joined by straight baselines, from which

the breadth of the territorial waters is measured are as follows

Latitude

Longitude

PT. 1

35° 49' 06.9''N

14° 33' 39.2'' E

PT. 2

35° 49' 11.4'' N

14° 33' 44.1'' E

PT. 3

35° 50' 27.0'' N

14° 34' 21.9'' E

PT. 4

35° 51' 38.3'' N

14° 34' 35.2'' E

PT. 5

35° 51' 42.4'' N

14° 34' 36.0'' E

PT. 6

35° 52' 02.5'' N

14° 34' 29.9'' E

PT. 7

35° 52' 21.0'' N

14° 34' 14.3'' E

PT. 8

35° 52' 41.9'' N

14° 33' 51.2'' E

PT. 9

35° 52' 48.3'' N

14° 33' 44.0'' E

PT. 10

35° 55' 49.7'' N

14° 29' 28.8'' E

PT. 11

36° 03' 33.6'' N

14° 18' 38.4'' E

PT. 12

36° 04' 48.3'' N

14° 15' 06.8'' E

PT. 13

36° 04' 55.4'' N

14° 14' 11.5'' E

PT. 14

36° 04' 56.5'' N

14° 13' 54.0'' E

PT. 15

36° 04' 54.7'' N

14° 13' 21.4'' E

PT. 16

36° 04' 48.6'' N

14° 12' 40.3'' E

PT. 17

36° 04' 43.7'' N

14° 12' 11.9'' E

PT. 18

36° 04' 29.6'' N

14° 11' 07.7'' E

PT. 19

36° 04' 22.5'' N

14° 11' 03.6'' E

PT. 20

36° 04' 10.9'' N

14° 11' 01.6'' E

PT. 21

36° 02' 11.7'' N

14° 11' 11.2'' E

PT. 22

35° 52' 47.3'' N

14° 20' 11.1'' E

PT. 23

35° 47' 14.9'' N

14° 24' 19.0'' E

PT. 24

35° 47' 13.4'' N

14° 24' 21.2'' E

PT. 25

35° 47' 12.6'' N

14° 24' 23.6'' E

PT. 26

35° 47' 12.6'' N

14° 24' 35.2'' E

PT. 27

35° 48' 22.8'' N

14° 31' 50.0'' E

PT. 28

35° 48' 26.9'' N

14° 32' 07.4'' E

Basepoints are referred to WGS84".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 184 of the

25th July, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives