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SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH ACT 1885 - SECT 6

Powers of British and foreign officers.

6.(1) For the purpose of carrying into effect the Convention, a person
commanding a ship of war of Her Majesty or of any foreign state for the time
being bound by the Convention, or a ship specially commissioned for the
purpose of the Convention by Her Majesty or by the government of such foreign
state, may exercise and perform the powers and duties vested in and imposed on
such officer by any article in the Schedule to this Act.

(2) If any person obstructs any such officer in such exercise or performance,
or refuses or neglects to comply with any demand or direction lawfully made or
given by him in pursuance of this Act, such person shall be liable, on summary
conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a
term not exceeding two months....

Subs.(3) rep. by 1964 c.29 s.8(2)

(4) In any such action tender of amends before the action was commenced may,
in lieu of or in addition to any other plea, be pleaded. If the action was
commenced after such tender, or is proceeded with after payment into court of
any money in satisfaction of the plaintiff's claim, and the plaintiff does not
recover more than the sum tendered or paid, he shall not recover any costs
incurred after such tender or payment, and the defendants shall be entitled to
costs, to be taxed as between solicitor and client, as from the time of such
tender or payment.

(5) Every such action shall be brought in one of Her Majesty's superior courts
in the United Kingdom (which courts shall have jurisdiction to try the same
wherever the matter complained of occurred)...


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