Administrative Units - Scottish Marine Regions (SMRs)
Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015
The Scottish Marine Regions are 11 areas established for the purposes of regional marine planning, defined by The Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015. These regions are sub-areas of both the "Scottish marine area" defined in the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 and "Scottish inshore region" defined in the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. Marine planning will take place at a local level within these regions, where regional marine planning will be delegated to Marine Planning Partnerships (MPPs). In August 2018, the Scottish Marine Regions were added to the Scottish Register of Geographic Codes as entity S41.
dataset
protocol: OGC:WFS
name: administrative_units_scottish_marine_regions
protocol: OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
name: administrative_units_scottish_marine_regions
description: administrative_units_scottish_marine_regions
protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
description: Download Scottish Marine Regions as zipped shapefile on WGS1984 datum
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/193/contents/made
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: The Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015
description: Legislation.gov.uk - Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/5/contents
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: Marine (Scotland) Act 2010
description: Legislation.gov.uk - Marine (Scotland) Act 2010
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/contents
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
description: Legislation.gov.uk - Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
https://marinescotland.atkinsgeospatial.com/nmpi/default.aspx?layers=765
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: MS Maps Layer 765
description: View layer on MS Maps
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1609
eng
EPSG
WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
planningCadastre
oceans
revision
2008-05-01
Administrative units
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
publication
2008-06-01
-13.502476902667045
3.691678385247023
61.187847839291216
54.22112011553135
revision
2010-01-01
There is no appropriate value
revision
2022-12-05
not planned
Coordinates digitised from the Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015 and Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundary Order 1999. Territorial seas (12M limit) retrieved from UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) INSPIRE service on 20170925. High water line derived from Ordnance Survey BoundaryLine version 2017/5. All coordinates and data on OSGB1936 datum or British National Grid projection were transformed to WGS1984 using OSTN15 grid (EPSG:7709). All line joins are loxodromic except where described in legislation as shortest planar distance on British National Grid projection. For the purposes of the Solway, the Scottish adjacent waters boundary was extended to the nearest point of the common boundary between Scotland and England as recorded on OS Boundary Line; this section of the line is for illustrative purposes only and does not describe a legal boundary. For standardisation, attributes use S57 vocabulary (see s-57.com) with additional fields. Area values calculated on ETRS89 / LAEA Europe (EPSG:3035) as integers. Data confirmed as of 05/12/2022.
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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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