2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“from the nearest land” means —| (a) | in relation to all land other than the part of Australia referred to in paragraph (b), from the baseline from which the territorial sea of the territory in question is established in accordance with international law; or | | (b) | in relation to the part of the north-eastern coast of Australia which lies between the points 11º 00’S, 142º 08’E and 24º 42’S, 153º 15’E, from the nearest of the straight lines joining consecutively the following points:| | 11º 00’S, 142º 08’E; 10º 35’S, 141º 55’E; 10º 00’S, 142º 00’E; 9º 10’S, 143º 52’E; 9º 00’S, 144º 30’E; 13º 00’S, 144º 00’E; 15º 00’S, 146º 00’E; 18º 00’S, 147º 00’E; 21º 00’S, 153º 00’E and 24º 42’S, 153º 15’E; |
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| “installation” means any drilling or production platform or any other platform used in connection with the exploration, exploitation or associated offshore processing of seabed mineral resources; |
| “Organisation” means the International Maritime Organisation; |
| “required standard”, in relation to ground or comminuted garbage, means ground or comminuted sufficiently finely to be capable of passing through a screen with openings no greater than 25 millimetres. |
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, “Special Area” means the Mediterranean Sea area, the Baltic Sea area, the Black Sea area, the Red Sea area, the Gulfs area, the North Sea area, the Antarctic area or the Wider Caribbean Region, which are respectively defined as follows:| (a) | “the Mediterranean Sea area” means the Mediterranean Sea proper including the gulfs and sea therein with the boundary between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea constituted by the 41º N parallel and bounded to the west by the Straits of Gibraltar at the meridian 5º 36’W; | | (b) | “the Baltic Sea area” means the Baltic Sea proper with the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland and the entrance to the Baltic Sea bounded by the parallel of the Skaw in the Skagerrak at 57º 44.8’N; | | (c) | “the Black Sea area” means the Black Sea proper with the boundary between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea constituted by the parallel 41º N; | | (d) | “the Red Sea area” means the Red Sea proper including the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba bounded at the south by the rhumb line between Ras si Ane (12º 28.5’N, 43º 19.6’E) and Husn Murad (12º 40.4’N, 43º 30.2’E); | | (e) | “the Gulfs area” means the sea area located north-west of the rhumb line between Ras al Hadd (22º 30’N, 59º 48’E) and Ras al Fasteh (25º 04’N, 61º 25’E); | | (f) | “the North Sea area” means the North Sea proper including seas therein with the boundary between:| (i) | the North Sea southwards of latitude 62ºN and eastwards of longitude 4ºW; | | (ii) | the Skagerrak, the southern limit of which is determined east of the Skaw by latitude 57º 44.8’N; and | | (iii) | the English Channel and its approaches eastwards of longitude 5°W and northwards of latitude 48º 30’N; |
| | (g) | “the Antarctic area” means the sea area south of latitude 60ºS; | | (h) | “the Wider Caribbean Region” means the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea proper including the bays and seas therein and that portion of the Atlantic Ocean within the boundary constituted by the 30ºN parallel from Florida eastward to 77º 30’W meridian, thence a rhumb line to the intersection of 20ºN parallel and 59ºW meridian, thence a rhumb line to the intersection of 7º 20’N parallel and 50ºW meridian, thence a rhumb line drawn south-westerly to the eastern boundary of French Guiana. |
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