Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021

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Number 28 of 2021

MARITIME JURISDICTION ACT 2021

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas

4. Repeals

5. Expenses

PART 2

Baseline, Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, etc.

6. Baseline

7. Territorial sea

8. Internal waters

9. State sovereignty and ownership of territorial sea

10. Jurisdiction in case of offence on foreign ship in territorial sea

11. Prosecution for offence on foreign ship

12. Contiguous zone

PART 3

Exclusive economic zone

13. Exclusive economic zone

14. Rights and jurisdiction of State in exclusive economic zone

15. Criminal and civil jurisdiction of State in exclusive economic zone

PART 4

Continental shelf

16. Continental shelf

17. Designated area

18. Rights and jurisdiction of State in designated area

19. Civil and criminal jurisdiction of State in designated area

PART 5

Miscellaneous

20. Construction of references and consequential amendments - territorial seas

21. Evidence as to extent of internal waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf

22. Offences committed on board Irish ship outside territorial sea

23. Offence - directors and others of body corporate

24. Prosecutions

PART 6

Amendments of other acts of Oireachtas

25. Amendment of Act of 1968

26. Amendment of National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1987

27. Amendment of National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994

28. Amendment of Dumping At Sea Act 1996

29. Amendment of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

30. Amendment of Electricity Regulation Act 1999

31. Amendment of Act of 2006

32. Amendment of Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

33. Amendment of Minerals Development Act 2017

SCHEDULE 1

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982

SCHEDULE 2

Consequential Amendments

Acts Referred to

Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1968 (No. 35)

Civil Liability Act 1961 (No. 41)

Continental Shelf Act 1968 (No. 14)

Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28)

Criminal Justice (Illicit Traffic by Sea) Act 2003 (No. 18)

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 (No. 50)

Criminal Justice Act 1994 (No. 15)

Customs Act 2015 (No. 18)

Dumping At Sea Act 1996 (No. 14)

Dumping at Sea Acts 1996 to 2009

Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23)

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 (No. 35)

Gas Act 1976 (No. 30)

Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (No. 10)

Maritime Jurisdiction Act 1959 (No. 22)

Maritime Safety Act 2005 (No. 11)

Maritime Security Act 2004 (No. 29)

Mercantile Marine Act 1955 (No. 29)

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (No. 43)

Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act 1993 (No. 34)

Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 2015

Minerals Development Act 2017 (No. 23)

National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1987 (No. 17)

National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994 (No. 17)

Oil Pollution of the Sea (Civil Liability and Compensation) Act 1988 (No.11)

Patents Act 1992 (No. 1)

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 (No. 7)

Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (No. 16)

Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 (No. 19)

Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act 1999 (No. 18)

Sea Pollution (Hazardous Substances) (Compensation) Act 2005 (No. 9)

Sea Pollution (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (No. 29)

Sea Pollution Act 1991 (No. 27)

Sea Pollution Acts 1991 to 2014

Sea-Fisheries Acts 2003 to 2019

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Trade Marks Act 1996 (No. 6)

Wildlife Act 1976 (No. 39)

Number 28 of 2021

MARITIME JURISDICTION ACT 2021

An Act to make provision in respect of the maritime jurisdiction of the State and for that purpose to give effect to certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982; to provide for the repeal of sections 2 and 3 of the Continental Shelf Act 1968 and Part 3 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 ; and to provide for related matters.

[22nd July, 2021]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: