Clause 4

Section 342 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsections: —“(4) The Port Master may refuse to issue a port clearance to any ship which has anchored in the submarine cable corridor unless the owner, agent or master of the ship has deposited such sum of money or furnished such security as may be required by the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore in order to meet the costs of making good the damage, whether actual or suspected, to the submarine cable and its associated plant (referred to in this section as the submersible plant).(5) Where the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore has reason to believe that the submersible plant has been damaged by a ship the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore may require the owner, agent or master of that ship to carry out an inspection or survey of the submersible plant in such manner as it considers necessary.(6) The expenses of any inspection or survey of the submersible plant carried out under subsection (5) shall be paid by the owner, agent or master of the ship.(7) For the purposes of this section, submarine cable corridor means the area designated by the Port Master as the submarine cable corridor.”.