Section 2

“chart” means a nautical chart specifically designed to meet the needs of marine navigation, showing depth of water, nature of the seabed, configuration and nature of the coast, dangers and aids to navigation, in a standardized format and such chart is also referred to as marine chart or hydrographic chart;

Act 660

“low-water line” means the intersection of the plane of low-water with the shore; the line along a coast or beach to which the sea recedes at low water;

“baselines” means the baselines as determined under section 5;

“geodesic” means a curve giving the shortest distance between two points on a given surface;

“low-tide elevation” means a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low-tide but submerged at high tide;

“territorial sea” means the territorial waters of Malaysia as determined in accordance with the Emergency (Essential Powers)

Ordinance, No. 7 1969 [P.U. (A) 307A/1969];

“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for maritime;

“continental shelf” means the continental shelf of Malaysia as defined in section 2 of the Continental Shelf Act 1966

[Act 83];

“exclusive economic zone” means the exclusive economic zone of Malaysia as determined in accordance with the Exclusive

Economic Zone Act 1984 [Act 311];

“maritime zones” means the territorial sea, the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone of Malaysia, or any of them, as the case may be.