Maritime Zones (Delimitation) Act, 1986 🇬🇭

Ghana 1 Citing Cases

P.N.D.C.L. 159

Maritime Zones (Delimitation) Act, 1986

Published in Government Gazette on 22 August 1986
Assented to on 2 August 1986
Commenced on 22 August 1986
[This is the version of this document from 22 August 1986.]
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AN ACT to declare the breadth of the territorial sea and to provide for related matters.

WHEREAS the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea referred to in this Act as "the Convention" was signed by the Government of Ghana on the 10th day of December, 1982 at Montego Bay in Jamaica;AND WHEREAS it is necessary to give effect to the provisions of the Convention relating to the delimitation of the territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf in order that these provisions of the Convention shall have the force of the law in Ghana.

1. Breadth of the territorial sea

(1)It is hereby declared that the breadth of the territorial sea of the R…

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