Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021

Amendment of Act of 2006

31. The Act of 2006 is amended—

(a) in section 6—

(i) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “exclusive fishery limits of the State”:

“‘exclusive fishery limits of the State’ comprise all seas that lie inside the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone;”,

and

(ii) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘exclusive economic zone’ has the same meaning as it has in the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021;”,

(b) in section 10(2), by the substitution of “the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021” for “section 85”, and

(c) in section 17A(9), in the definition of “place”, by the substitution of “the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021” for “the Continental Shelf Act 1968 ”.