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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Updated 26 February 2008

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

Legislation

Territorial Sea Act 1969, No. 38 of 6 December 1969
Continental Shelf Act, 1969 (Act No. 43 of 22 December 1969)
Archipelagic Waters and Exclusive Economic Zone Act, 1986, Act No. 24 of 11 November 1986
Continental Shelf (Amendment) Act, 1986 (Act No. 23 of 1986)
Archipelagic Baselines of Trinidad and Tobago Order, 1988, Notice nș 206 of 31 October 1988
Geographical Coordinates of Points Used for Determining the Archipelagic Baselines of Trinidad and Tobago Transformed to WGS84 Datum (as deposited by Trinidad and Tobago with the Secretary-General, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on 14 May 2004)
Act No. 23 of 1986, An Act to amend the Continental Shelf Act, Chap. 1:52, 7 November 1986 (see Bulletin 56, p. 125)

Maritime boundary delimitation agreements
 and other material

with Venezuela

Agreement between the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of the Republic of Venezuela on the Delimitation of Marine and Submarine Areas (First Phase agreement), 4 August 1989
Treaty between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Republic of Venezuela on the delimitation of marine and submarine areas, 18 April 1990 (entry into force: 23 July 1991; registration #: 28463; registration date: 8 November 1991; link to UNTS)

Other relevant documents

Trinidad and Tobago - Barbados

Award of the Arbitral Tribunal Constituted pursuant to article 287, and in accordance with Annex VII, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Matter of an Arbitration between Barbados and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 11 April 2006
 

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