In accordance with the decision of the Parliament:

ARTICLE 1 (26.11.2004)

Underwater under this law means a cable or pipeline calculated for the territorial waters, the exclusive economic zone or the high seas.

Outside the territorial waters of Finland, this law applies only to a vessel flying the flag of Finland, a Finnish citizen and a Finnish community.

ARTICLE 2 (21.4.1995/597)

Anyone who deliberately or negligently disregards or harms the underwater charge must be condemned, unless the law provides for a heavier penalty elsewhere, For breach of underwater management Fine.

ARTICLE 3

If, in the calculation, construction or repair of the underwater management, another management is harmed, the owner of the first management shall be the owner, even if it is not possible to punish the person responsible for causing the damage, The owner shall bear the costs necessary for the repair of the management.

§ 4

If, in order to avoid damage to an underwater management, an anchor or other fishing gear has been sacrificed, the management owner shall be obliged to compensate for the damage caused.

The receipt of compensation shall be conditional on the ship's master, if possible immediately after the event, to write about it in the logbook, if there exists, or a short report to the minutes to be drawn up, of which The crew signatures shall be authenticated, and also in four to three hours from the arrival of the vessel to the first port, and in any event, as soon as possible after the arrival of this vessel, to make the seawater provided by the sea. If the marine noise is carried out in Finland, the court concerned shall immediately inform the Minister for Foreign Affairs who, at the earliest opportunity, may report information to the embassy or consular authority of the owner of the water management in Finland.

§ 5

This Act shall enter into force on 18 March 1965 and repeal the Law of 16 December 1938 on the protection of certain underwater cables (998/38) .