and shall come into operation on the date on which the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of India. (iii) The Malagasy Zone The Malagasy Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 100 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Madagascar west of the meridians of Cape d'Ambre in the north and of Cape Ste. Marie in the south and within a distance of 150 miles from the nearest land along the coast of Madagascar east of these meridians, and shall come into operation when the present Convention shall have come into force in respect of Madagascar. (h) Australia The Australian Zone The Australian Zone shall comprise the sea area within a distance of 150 miles from the nearest land along the costs of Australia, except off the north and west coasts of the Australian mainland between the point opposite Thursday Island and the point on the west coast at 20° south latitude. (3)(a) Any Contracting Government may propose: (i) the reduction of any zone off the coast of any of its territories; (ii) the extension of any such zone to a maximum of 100 miles from the nearest land along any such coast, by making a declaration to that effect and the reduction or extension shall come into force after the expiration of a period of six months after the declaration has been made, unless any one of the Contracting Governments shall have made a declaration not less than two months before the expiration of that period to the effect that it considers that the destruction of birds and adverse effects on fish and the marine organisms on which they feed would be likely to occur or that its interests are affected either by reason of the proximity of its coast or by reason of its ships trading in the area, and that it does not accept the reduction or extension, as the case may be. (b) Any declaration under this paragraph shall be made by a notification in writing to the Organization which shall notify all Contracting Governments of the receipt of the declaration. (4) The Organization shall prepare a set of charts indicating the extent of the prohibited zones in force in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Annex and shall issue amendments thereto as may be necessary. 15. The following changes to be made in Annex B to the Convention: 1. Throughout the Annex replace the words 'Identity numbers of tank(s) by 'Identity numbers of tank(s) concerned'. 2. In Form I(a) replace the words 'Place or position of ship' by 'Place or position of ship at time of discharge'. 3. In Form I(d) and Form II (a) and (b) replace the words 'Place or position of ship' by 'Place or position of ship at time of disposal'. 4. In Form I(c) add a new line 17 as follows: '17. Approximate quantities of water discharged' and re-number lines in (d) 18 to 20. 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, 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 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). |