Prohibited Areas Ordinance [Cap 77]. Country/Territory Kiribati Document type Legislation Date 1957 (1977) Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Laws of the Gilbert Islands, Revised Edition 1977. Long titleAn Ordinance to provide for certain islands and their territorial waters to be declared prohibited areas. Subject Sea Keyword Maritime zone Territorial sea Sovereignty Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Least Developed Countries, Micronesia, Oceania, Small Island Developing States, South Pacific Abstract This Ordinance empowers the Governor to declare, by Notice, any island within Kiribati and its territorial waters to be a prohibited area. In this Ordinance "territorial waters" means that part of the sea adjacent to the coast of any island Kiribati, which is within 3 geographical miles measured from low-water mark of the seaward side of the reef fronting such coast or bounding any lagoon waters adjacent to such coast or, when a reef is not present, from the low-water mark of the coast itself. No person shall remain in or enter into or attempt to enter into any prohibited area without the authority in writing of the Governor. (6 sections) Full text English Website www.paclii.org