Marine Boundaries and Jurisdiction Act, 1978.

This Act consists of 5 Parts: Preliminary (I); Economic Zone (II); Fishing in the Zone (III); Marine Conservation Officers (IV); General (V); Schedule.
The territorial waters of Barbados comprise those areas of the sea, having as their landward limit the baselines specified by section 4 or prescribed under that section, as the case may be, and as their seaward limit a boundary line which at every point is a distance of 12 nautical miles or such other distance from the nearest point of those baselines as the Minister by order prescribes. The low-water line along the coast of Barbados shall be the baselines of the territorial waters, except where the Minister may in the place of those baselines by order prescribes other baselines making use of a mixture of straight lines drawn from points on the coast of Barbados and the low-water line.