Contiguous zone definition

Contiguous zone means the entire zone established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (37 FR 11906 June 15, 1972).
Contiguous zone. ’ means the entire zone established or to be established by the United States under article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone;
Contiguous zone. ’ means the entire zone

Examples of Contiguous zone in a sentence

  • Contiguous zone means the entire zone established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone.

  • Contiguous zone means the zone established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention of the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, that is contiguous to the territorial sea and that extends nine miles seaward from the outer limit of the territorial area.

  • Contiguous zone means the zone of the high seas, established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, which is contiguous to the territorial sea and which extends nine miles seaward from the outer limit of the territorial sea.

  • The Statement establishes 12 nautical miles of territorial sea, 12 nautical miles of Contiguous zone, 200 nautical miles of exclusive economic zone and 200 nautical miles of continental shelf, measuring from the baseline.

  • The right of innocent passage shall exist in the territorial waters.• Contiguous zone: The sea beyond the territorial waters, but within a distance of twenty four nautical miles from the baselines, shall be the contiguous zone of the Republic.


More Definitions of Contiguous zone

Contiguous zone means the contiguous zone of India described, or notified as such for the time being under section 5 of the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976);
Contiguous zone means the entire zone established by the United States under Article 24
Contiguous zone means that area contiguous to the territorial sea which does not extend beyond twenty-four nautical miles from the archipelagic baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured;
Contiguous zone means the area of water that has as its inner limit the outer limit of the territorial sea and as its outer limit the line every point of which is a distance of 24 nautical miles from the nearest points of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured;
Contiguous zone means the area of sea specified in section 12;
Contiguous zone means a zone contiguous to the territorial sea as defined in Article 33 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, where formally proclaimed;
Contiguous zone means the zone of the high seas contiguous to the territorial seas extending out to 24 nautical miles (NM) from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. See (Presidential Proclamation No. 7219, August 2, 1999).