We, Qaboos bin Said, the Sultan of Oman
after perusal of the Law Governing the Administrative Apparatus of the State 26/75 and Royal Decree 13/76 amending it,
and the Royal Decree on the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, and the Exclusive Fisheries Zone in the Sultanate issued on 17 July 1972,
and in pursuance of public interest,
have decreed as follows
Article 1
Article 6 of chapter three of the Royal Decree on Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, and the Exclusive Fisheries Zone in the Sultanate issued on 17 July 1972 is hereby amended as follows:
1. The exclusive fisheries zone in the Sultanate extends for a distance of two hundred nautical miles towards the sea, measured starting from the baselines from which the width of the territorial sea is measured.
2. In the event that the coast of another state lies opposite or adjacent to the coast of the Sultanate of Oman, the outer limits of the exclusive fisheries zone in the Sultanate must be determined by the median line, every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which the width of the territorial waters of the Sultanate and the territorial waters of the other states are measured.
Article 2
Those concerned shall implement this decree, and it comes into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Issued on: 28 Jumada Al-Thani 1397
Corresponding to: 15 June 1977
Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman
Published in Official Gazette 128 issued on 2 July 1977.