TERRITORIAL WATERS REGULATIONS

TERRITORIAL WATERS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 226.02

TERRITORIAL WATERS REGULATIONS

31st July, 2015

LEGAL NOTICE 236 of 2015.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Territorial Waters

Regulations.

(2) These regulations apply to the internal waters and territorial

waters of Malta.

(3) The purpose of these regulations is to regulate activities in

the internal waters and territorial waters of Malta.

(1) Unless otherwise defined in these regulations, words

and expressions used herein shall have the same meaning assigned

to them as in the Act.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"the Act" means the Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zone

Act;

"internal waters" means the waters on the landward side of the

baselines from which the breadth of the territorial waters are

measured;

"territorial waters" has the same meaning assigned to it by article

3 of the Act.

In pursuance of the provisions of regulation 11 of the

Continental Shelf Regulations, the provisions of regulations 3 to 10

of the said Regulations shall also apply in the internal waters and

territorial waters of Malta.