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INTERNATIONAL MARITIME CONVENTIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2001 NO. 149, 2001 - SCHEDULE 4

- Protection of submarine cables and pipelines

Submarine Cables and Pipelines Protection Act 1963

1 Preamble

Repeal the Preamble.

2 Subsection 5(1)

After "high seas" (wherever occurring), insert "or in the exclusive economic zone".

3 Subsection 5(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(2)
In subsection (1):

"exclusive economic zone" has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 .

"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.



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