This Act authorizes the Department of Public Safety to close public beaches during potentially hazardous circumstances. Beaches can be closed in case of natural disasters such as typhoons and other tropical storms and abnormal tidal waves and other extreme climatic or environmental conditions. No person shall use any public beach when a notice of closure has been published.

This Act establishes a voluntary national program within the Department of Commerce to encourage coastal States to develop and implement coastal zone management plans. Funds were authorized for cost-sharing grants to States to develop their programs. Each State's plan was required to define boundaries of the coastal zone, to identify uses of the area to be regulated by the State, the mechanism (criteria, standards or regulations) for controlling such uses, and broad guidelines for priorities of uses within the coastal zone.

This Chapter provides for public access to the ocean shore, i.e. land between the mean low waterline and series of lines connecting angle points prescribed in section 3. Extensive areas of ocean shore are inaccessible to the public due to the absence of public rights-of-way and the ocean is a vital part of the patrimony of the people of Guam and is a major source of recreation and livelihood. In order to safeguard access to the ocean shore this Chapter provides for protection and maintenance of traditional rights of way to the ocean.

This Act provides for coastal zone management in Jamaica and declares all rights in and over the foreshore of Jamaica and the floor of the sea to be vested in the Crown (sect. 3). Any person who is the owner or occupier of any land adjoining any part of the foreshore and any member of his family and any private guest of his shall be entitled to use that part of the foreshore adjoining his land for private domestic purposes, that is to say, for bathing, fishing, and other like forms of recreation and as a means of access to the sea for such purposes (sect. 4).

This Law provides for the protection of sea beaches, whether composed of rock or sand, in Jersey from unauthorized removal of materials. A licence for such activity shall be obtained from the Minister for Planning and Environment. A licence may be granted subject to such conditions as the Minister for Planning and Environment may think fit to impose.

Amended by: Territorial Sea (Consequential Provisions) (Jersey) Law 1994. (2004-08-31)

This Law provides for the management of coastal areas and isles and in particular for their planning, utilization, conservation, disaster mitigation, coast reclamation, rehabilitation of coastal damage, rights and access of communities, settlement of conflicts and elaboration of related international conventions.The planning of coastal management is executed through integrated coastal management approach by integrating various development plans of various administration levels.

This Directive sets out measures to reduce the risk of adverse effects associated with floods, with a view to protecting human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activities in general. It establishes a framework concerning the management and assessment of such flood risks. According to these provisions, all Member States must (i) undertake a preliminary flood risk assessment for each river basin district and for coastal areas; (ii) prepare flood hazard maps and flood risk maps; and (iii) elaborate flood risk management plans.

The Beach Authority, established under section 5 as a body corporate for purposes of this Act, shall be to ensure proper control and management of public beaches in Mauritius and Rodrigues, i.e. a space along the coast which, by notice published in the Gazette, has been declared to be a public beach by the Minister responsible for the subject of housing and lands. This space includes an area between the low water mark and the high water mark, and also the surrounding waters up to a distance of 100 meters.

This Act provides for town and country planning at various levels of administration and related matters such as registration of servitudes in local plans and expropriation.The Act consists of 70 sections divided into 18 Chapters: Scope (1); Area planning (2); Coastal planning (2a); Planning relative to commercial activities (2b); Regional planning (3); Municipal planning (4); Local planning (5); Plan implementation and withdrawal (6); local agenda 21 (6a); Division into zones and administration of zones (7); Summerhouse areas (8); Servitudes (9); Conversion of zones (10); Expropriation, etc

This Chapter makes provision with respect to rights relative to public lands as defined by this Chapter.

This Chapter lays down rules relative to the division of public lands. It specifies powers and duties of the Chief of Lands and Surveys regarding the subdivision of public land and in particular lands that are adjacent to the sea or tidal areas. Reasonable public access shall be secured in public areas to be subdivided or offered for sale.

This Chapter concerns the procedures for the application for a permit “to excavate, fill or borrow” tidelands, defines traditional and customary rights of the people of the Chuuk State in respect of tidelands and the granting of (ownership) rights in respect of such land by the State to people of Chuuk. Tidelands within the meaning of the Chuuk Constitution are those marine lands from the shore to the face of the reef that are shallow enough for traditional fishing activity by women.