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regulating the construction, erection, or use of installations or devices in, on, or above the continental shelf, or any specified part thereof, in connection with the exploration of the continental shelf or that part thereof or the exploitation of its natural resources;

prohibiting the construction, erection, placing, or use of installations or devices in, on, or above the continental shelf in places where they could cause interference with the use of recognized sea lanes essential to coastwise or international navigation;

establishing safety zones, extending to a distance not exceeding five hundred metres measured from each point of the outer edge of the installation or device, around any such installations or devices in, on, or above the continental shelf;

prescribing such measures as he considers necessary in any such safety zone for the protection of the installation or device with respect to which the safety zone is established;

regulating or prohibiting the entry of ships into any such safety zone;

prescribing measures to be taken in any such safety zone for the protection of the living resources of the sea and the natural resources of the continental shelf from harmful agents;

prescribing the notice to be given of the construction, erection, or placing of installations or devices in, on, or above the continental shelf;

prescribing the permanent means to be installed for the purpose of giving warning to shipping and aircraft of the presence of installations or devices in, on, or above the continental shelf;

providing for the removal of installations or devices constructed, erected, or placed in, on, or above the continental shelf which have been abandoned or become disused;

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prohibiting or restricting any exploration of the continental shelf or any specified part thereof or any exploitation of its natural resources which in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong could result in any unjustifiable interference with navigation, fishing, or the conservation of the living resources of the sea, or could interfere with national defence or with oceanographic or other scientific research or with submarine cables or pipelines;

providing for such matters as are necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for the due administration thereof; and

prescribing penalties for breaches of the regulations, not exceeding ten thousand ringgit.

In this section the term “continental shelf” includes the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas within the limits of the territorial waters of the States:

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the rights and powers of the State Authority under the appropriate land law or any other written law in respect of areas within the limits of the territorial waters of the State.