5. Delete the words 'from ship' in the headings of Forms I(d) and II (b). 6. In Form III replace the words 'Place or position of ship' by 'Place or position of ship at time of occurrence'. WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of February 25, 1964, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the acceptance of the said amendments; WHEREAS the amendments were duly ratified and accepted by the President of the United States of America on September 9, 1966, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate; WHEREAS it is provided in paragraph (4) of Article XVI of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, that any amendment communicated to Contracting Governments for their acceptance under paragraph (3) of that Article shall come into force for all Contracting Governments, except those which before it comes into force make a declaration that they do not accept the amendment, twelve months after the date on which the amendment is accepted by two-thirds of the Contracting Governments; WHEREAS instruments of acceptance of the said amendments were deposited with Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization by Contracting Governments as follows: Poland, except as to the amendment to Article XIV, on January 28, 1963; France on April 29, 1963; Sweden on June 10, 1963; Canada on July 5, 1963; Kuwait on July 17, 1963; Norway on August 7, 1963; Liberia on August 21, 1963; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on August 28, 1963; the United Arab Republic on October 3, 1963; the Netherlands on December 23, 1963; Denmark on May 22, 1964; Ghana on October 19, 1964; Jordan on December 14, 1964; the Federal Republic of Germany on December 17, 1964; Malagasy Republic on June 21, 1965; Ireland on August 3, 1965; the Philippines on November 9, 1965; Belgium on February 10, 1966; Finland on March 14, 1966; Switzerland on May 11, 1966; Iceland on May 18, 1966; and Israel on June 28, 1966; WHEREAS, as a consequence of the deposit by a Contracting Government (Iceland) of the twenty-first aceptance of the amendments to Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XVI, and XVIII and the amendments to Annexes A and B, two-thirds of the Contracting Governments to the Convention had accepted those amendments, which will accordingly come into force on May 18, 1967; WHEREAS, as a consequence of the deposit on June 28, 1966 by a Contracting Government (Israel) of the twenty-first acceptance of the amendment to Article XIV, two-thirds of the Contracting Governments had accepted that amendment, which will accordingly come into force on June 28, 1967; AND WHEREAS an instrument of acceptance of all of the aforesaid amendments was deposited by the Government of the United States of America on September 21, 1966; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, to the end that they shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and after May 18, 1967 with respect to the amendments to Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XVI, and XVIII and the amendments to Annexes A and B, and on and after June 28, 1967 with respect to the amendment to Article XIV, by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sixty-six and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-first. LYNDON B. JOHNSON. By the President: NICHOLAS DEB KATZENBACH, 1 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone 1 The States Parties to this Convention Have Agreed as follows: PART I: TERRITORIAL SEA Section I. General 1. The sovereignty of a State extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea adjacent to its coast, described as the territorial sea. 2. This sovereignty is exercised subject to the provisions of these articles and to other rules of international law. ARTICLE 2 The sovereignty of a coastal State extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as to its bed and subsoil. Section II. Limits of the Territorial Sea Except where otherwise provided in these articles, the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal State. ARTICLE 4 1. In localities where the coast line is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points may be employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. 2. The drawing of such baselines must not depart to any appreciable extent from the general direction of the coast, and the sea areas lying within the lines must be sufficiently closely linked to the land domain to be subject to the régime of internal waters. 3. Baselines shall not be drawn to and from low-tide elevations unless lighthouses or similar installations which are permanently above sea level have been built on them. 4. Where the method of straight baselines is applicable under the provisions of paragraph 1, account may be taken in determining particular baselines, of economic interests peculiar to the region concerned, the reality and the importance of which are clearly evidenced by a long usage. 5. The system of straight baselines may not be applied by a State in such a manner as to cut off from the high seas the territorial sea of another State. 1 Adopted Apr. 27 (U.N. doc. A/CONF. 13/L. 52). 6. The coastal State must clearly indicate straight baselines on charts, to which due publicity must be given. ARTICLE 5 1. Waters on the landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea form part of the internal waters of the State. 2. Where the establishment of a straight baseline in accordance with article 4 has the effect of enclosing as internal waters areas which previously had been considered as part of the territorial sea or of the high seas, a right of innocent passage, as provided in articles 14 to 23, shall exist in those waters. ARTICLE 6 The outer limit of the territorial sea is the line every point of which is at a distance from the nearest point of the baseline equal to the breadth of the territorial sea. ARTICLE 7 1. This article relates only to bays the coasts of which belong to a single State. 2. For the purposes of these articles, a bay is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain landlocked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation shall not, however, be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. 3. For the purpose of measurement, the area of an indentation is that lying between the low-water mark around the shore of the indentation and a line joining the low-water marks of its natural entrance points. Where, because of the presence of islands, an indentation has more than one mouth, the semi-circle shall be drawn on a line as long as the sum total of the lengths of the lines across the different mouths. Islands within an indentation shall be included as if they were part of the water area of the indentation. 4. If the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay does not exceed twenty-four miles, a closing line may be drawn between these two low-water marks, and the waters enclosed thereby shall be considered as internal waters. 5. Where the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay exceeds twenty-four miles, a straight baseline of twenty-four miles shall be drawn within the bay in such a manner as to enclose the maximum area of water that is possible with a line of that length. 6. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to so-called "historic" bays, or in any case where the straight baseline system provided for in article 4 is applied. ARTICLE 8 For the purpose of delimiting the territorial sea, the outermost permanent harbour works which form an integral part of the harbour system shall be regarded as forming part of the coast. ARTICLE 9 Roadsteads which are normally used for the loading, unloading and anchoring of ships, and which would otherwise be situated wholly or |