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IRELAND

Updated 27 April 2007

SEE SUBMISSION IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE DEPOSIT OBLIGATIONS PURSUANT TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA

Legislation

Maritime Jurisdiction Act, (Straight Baselines) Order, 1959
Continental Shelf Act No. 14 of 11 June 1968
Continental Shelf (Designated Areas) Order, 1974
Continental Shelf (Designated Areas) (No. 2) Order, 1977 S.I. No. 22 of l977
Continental Shelf (Designated Areas) Order, No. 92 of 1993.
Continental Shelf (Protection of Installations) (Kinsale Head Field) Order, No. 285 of 1977
Continental Shelf (Protection of Installations) (Ballycotton Field) Order, No. 226 of 1991.
Continental Shelf (Protection of Installations) (Connemara Field) Order, No. 267 of 1997
Continental Shelf (Protection of Installations) (Connemara Field) (Amendment) Order, No. 317 of 1997
Continental Shelf (Corrib North, 18/20-2) Order, No. 226 of 1998
Social Welfare (Continental Shelf) Regulations, No. 19 of 1978.
Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Act 1964 (Commencement) Order, No. 197 of 1965
Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Act, 1964 (Specified States) Order, No. 198 of 1965.
Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Act, 1964 (Specified States) (Amendment) Order, No. 14 of 1967
Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 1959 (Charts) Order, No. 174 of 1959
Maritime Jurisdiction (Exclusive Fishery Limits) Order, No. 320 of 1976
Petroleum and other Minerals Development Act, No. 7 of 1960
Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, No. 35 of 1995.
Dumping At Sea Act, No. 14 of 1996.
Gas Act, No. 30 of 1976.
Gas (Amendment) Act, No. 17 of 1998
Gas (Amendment) Act, No. 7 of 1993.
Safety, Health and Welfare (Offshore Installations) Act, No. 18 of 1987.
Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act, No. 18 1999
Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (to be published in Law of the Sea Bulletin No. 62).
List of geographical coordinates of points, in World Geodetic System 84 (WGS 84), specifying the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone of Ireland (to be published in Law of the Sea Bulletin No. 62).

Maritime boundary delimitation agreements
 and other material

with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Ireland concerning the delimitation of areas of the continental shelf between the two countries, 7 November 1988 (entry into force: 11 January 1990; registration #: 27204; registration date: 3 May 1990; link to UNTS)
Protocol supplementary to the agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom concerning the delimitation of areas of the continental shelf between the two countries (7 November 1988), 8 December 1992 (entry into force: 26 March 1993; registration #: A-27204; registration date: 14 October 1993; link to UNTS)
Exchange of Notes dated 18 October 2001 and 31 October 2001 between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland constituting an agreement pursuant to Article 83 paragraph 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 on the provisional delimitation of an area of the continental shelf  (Entered into force on 31 October 2001)
 

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