(6) Without prejudice to the operation of subsection (5) above in relation to a reference to the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom is measured, nothing in that subsection shall require any reference in any enactment or instrument to a specified distance to be construed as a reference to a distance equal to the breadth of that territorial sea.
(7) In this section “nautical miles” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.
Enactments and instruments not affected. 2.—(1) Except in so far as Her Majesty may by Order in Council otherwise provide, nothing in section 1 above shall affect the operation of any enactment contained in a local Act passed before the date on which that section comes into force.
(2) Nothing in section 1 above, or in any Order in Council under that section or subsection (1) above, shall affect the operation of so much of any enactment passed or instrument made before the date on which that section comes into force as for the time being settles the limits within which any harbour authority or port health authority has jurisdiction or is able to exercise any power.
(3) Where any area which is not part of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom becomes part of that sea by virtue of section 1 above or an Order in Council under that section, subsection (2) of section 1 of the 1964 c. 29.Continental Shelf Act 1964 (vesting and exercise of rights with respect to coal) shall continue, on and after the date on which section 1 above or that Order comes into force, to have effect with respect to coal in that area as if the area were not part of the territorial sea.
(4) Nothing in section 1 above, or in any Order in Council under that section, shall affect―
- (a) any regulations made under section 6 of the 1934 c. 36.Petroleum (Production) Act 1934 before the date on which that section or Order comes into force; or
- (b) any licences granted under the said Act of 1934 before that date or granted on or after that date in pursuance of regulations made under that section before that date.
(5) In this section―
- “coal” has the same meaning as in the 1946 c. 59.Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946;
- “harbour authority” means a harbour authority within the meaning of the 1964 c. 40.
1970 c. 1. (N.I.).Harbours Act 1964 or the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970; and - “port health authority” means a port health authority for the purposes of the 1984 c. 22.Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.
Amendments and repeals. 3.—(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with the amendments there specified (being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act).
(2) Her Majesty may by Order in Council—
- (a) make, in relation to any enactment passed or instrument made before the date on which section 1 above comes into force, any amendment corresponding to any of those made by Schedule 1 to this Act;
