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Exclusive Economic Zone (Designation of Area) Order 1991 (No. 19 of 1991).

Country/Territory
Guyana
Document type
Regulation
Date
1991
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Sea
Keyword
Maritime zone EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Sovereignty
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States, South America
Abstract

This Order designates the area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea and bounded on its seaward side by the line every point of which is two hundred miles from the nearest point of the baseline of the territorial sea as the Exclusive Economic Zone of Guyana.

Full text
English

References - Legislation

Implements

Maritime Boundaries Act, 1977 (Act No. 10).

Legislation | Guyana | 1977 (1998)

Keyword: Fishery management and conservation, Marine fisheries, Foreign fishing, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties, Maritime zone, EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone, Territorial sea, Continental shelf, Navigation, Sovereignty

Source: FAO, FAOLEX