Page 1 National legislation - DOALOS/OLA - United Nations asdf Maritime Zones Law No. 22 of 1 September 1976 Section 1 1. This Law may be cited as the Maritime Zones Law, No. 22 of 1976. Section 2 2. (1) The President of the Republic of Sri Lanka may, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, declare the limits of the sea beyond the land territory and internal waters of Sri Lanka which shall be the territorial sea of Sri Lanka, specifying in such Proclamation the baselines from which such limits shall be measured. The waters on the landward side of such baselines shall form part of the internal waters of Sri Lanka. (2) Where an island or rock, or a group of islands and rocks, or a group of islands or a group of rocks, constituting part of the territory of Sri Lanka is situated seaward from the main coast or baseline, the territorial sea shall extend to the limits declared by the Proclamation under subsection/(1) measured from the low-water mark of ordinary spring tides along the seawar...