Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00970:section:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00970
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5
Character Range: 3319–3888

5  Act applies only to cables and pipelines beneath the high seas
 (1) This Act applies only to a submarine cable or pipeline, or that part of a submarine cable or pipeline:
 (a) that is beneath the high seas or in the exclusive economic zone; and
 (b) that is not a submarine cable (within the meaning of Schedule 3A to the Telecommunications Act 1997) in a protection zone (within the meaning of that Schedule).
 (2) In subsection (1):
high seas has the same meaning as in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982.