'File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous' [‎54r] (113/182)

(V)/
(Hi) Between the six and twelve aile lini, rights
coald probably be acquired by effective occupation.
fhc Company, however, co^ld not expect any support
from His ?4ajesty , s Governaent in any claim for areas
beyond the three mile line which they had not
effectively possessed, since, in the view of His
Jajesty's Oovernment, the raere granting of a
concession is not in itsell' sufficient to establish
national or proprietary rights to the sea-bed under
the high seas. Therefore, once the area has been
defined and accepted by the Iranian Oovem .ent, the
Company would be well advised to talce immediate ate g
to establish effective occupation, as far as is
reasonably practicable, of those ^.arts which are
outside the three mile line. For such occupation
of these ^arts to be effective, it wo .Id probably be
necessary to erect on them artificial co. ; s ir Actions
and derricks, and it would not be enough merely to
ring them round with buoys. It ,-ould be very
unsatisfactory if the Company included in its claim
areas from which it were later found impossible to
exclude interlopers. At the same time the Company
would not, of course, wish to omit areas in which
they might be interested and which the Iranian
Government might at some future jatc clai a the righ
to grant to another concern.
(iv) That part of the concession ..hich refers to the
maritime area should be worded so as to apply to
H sea-bed" rather than to "vaters" and the limits
should be expressed as geographical co-ordinates
in order to avoid any relationship to territorial
waters.