13.—Section 3 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) the insertion in the definition of “maritime casualty” of “pollution,” after the words “resulting in”, and

(ii) the insertion of the following definition:

“‘prescribed area’ means an area outside the State prescribed by the Minister for the purposes of this Act;”,

(b) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) A reference in this Act to the State includes a reference to—

(a) the inland waters of the State,

(b) the territorial seas of the State, and the seabed and subsoil beneath those seas, and

(c) any area lying within a line, every point of which is 200 nautical miles from the baselines for the purposes of the Maritime Jurisdiction Acts, 1959 to 1988, and the waters above it, provided that this paragraph shall not be construed as constituting a claim by the State to any area that—

(i) is under the jurisdiction of a state other than the State, and

(ii) the State recognises as being under such jurisdiction.”,

and

(c) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

“(3) A reference in this Act to a country other than the State includes a reference to the territorial seas and inland waters of that country.”.