5Act applies only to cables and pipelines beneath the high seas

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.