Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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.