Electricity Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 10 · Offences
85A. Damage to submarine electricity cables, etc.
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Any person who wilfully, recklessly or negligently —
does any act, or causes or permits any act to be done, which damages or is likely to damage any submarine electric line or electricity cable in the territorial waters of Singapore that belongs to or that is under the management or control of an electricity licensee; or
electric line
“electric line” means any line which is used for carrying electricity for any purpose and includes —(a)any support for the line, that is to say, any structure, pole or other thing in, on, by or from which the line is or may be supported, carried or suspended;(b)any apparatus connected to the line for the purposes of carrying electricity;(c)any wire, cable, tube, pipe or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by, or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, the line; and(d)any electricity cable;
omits to do anything required to prevent any damage to any such submarine electric line or electricity cable,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2 million or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both.
electricity cable
“electricity cable” means a length of insulated single conductor or of 2 or more such conductors, whether or not the conductor or conductors are provided with an overall covering for mechanical protection, and —(a)all other apparatus or devices connected to the conductor or conductors, as the case may be (including by any remote or wireless means); and(b)any data communication cable used to monitor or control the transmission of electricity;