An Act to make provision as to the exploration andexploitation of the continental shelf; to enable effect to be given to certainprovisions of the Convention on the High Seas done in Geneva on 29th April1958; and on matters connected with those purposes.1. Exploration andexploitation of continental shelf(1) Any rightsexercisable by the United Kingdomoutside territorial waterswith respect to the sea-bedand subsoil and their natural resources, except so far as they are exercisablein relation to coal, are hereby vested in HerMajesty.(2) In relationto any coal with respectto which those rights are exercisable the Coal IndustryNationalisation Act 1946 shallapply as it applies in relation to coal in Great Britain,but with the modification that the NationalCoal Board shall not engage in any operations for the purpose of workingor getting the coal without the consent of the Minister of Power, w...