Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights (Sabar) has filed an originating summons in the High Court in respect of several State and Federal laws relating to the Continental Shelf boundaries.
Its Chairman Datuk Dr Johan Arriffin Samad said the suit filed at the Kota Kinabalu High Court was to dispute the validity of the Territorial Sea Act 2012 , which limits the State’s maritime boundary to only three nautical miles.He said under a colonial-era decree in 1954, Sabah’s waters extended up to its Continental Shelf. According to a decree by the UK, it also included its seabed and subsoil which lies underneath the high seas, he said.
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