Paragraph 2

for subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following subsection:

“(1)

On summary conviction of any offence under section 3 of the Submarine Telegraph Act 1885^f1 (damaging submarine cables) a person shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum or both.”;

in subsection (2), for the words “listed in Schedule 1 to this Act, being” there shall be substituted the words “an offence mentioned in subsection (1) above but which is”;

subsections (5) and (8) shall be omitted;

in subsection (9), after the words “In this section” there shall be inserted the following definition:

““enactment” means an enactment contained in an Act of Parliament and extending to the Isle of Man”; and

in subsection (9), after the definition of “fine” there shall be inserted the following definition:

““offence triable either way” means an offence under an enactment, being an offence triable either on information or summarily;”.