PETALING JAYA: A Sabah NGO has filed a suit to challenge the legality of a federal law limiting the state’s control of its waters.
The Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights 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.Sabar chairman Johan Arriffin Samad 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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