Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SUBMARINE CABLES AND PIPELINES PROTECTION ACT 1963

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Saving of other laws  
   4.      Extension of Act to Territories  
   5.      Act applies only to cables and pipelines beneath the high seas  
   5A.     Application of the Criminal Code  
   6.      Act binds Crown  
   7.      Persons not to break or injure submarine cables or pipelines  
   8.      Liability for breaking or injuring a cable or pipeline  
   9.      Indemnity for loss of anchor etc  
   10.     Punishment of offences  
   11.     Jurisdiction of courts