Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts The functions of the
Commission are —
(a) to
maintain and operate shipping services carried on by the State Shipping
Service before the coming into operation of this Act; and
(b) to
establish, maintain and operate, or to provide for the establishment,
maintenance and operation of additional shipping services for the carriage of
passengers, goods and mails —
(i)
between a place in the State and another place in the
State;
(ii)
between a place in the State and any other place outside
the State;
(iii)
between a place outside the State and another place
outside the State;
(c) to
establish, maintain and operate either alone or in conjunction with any other
person any shipping service incidental to a shipping service operated by the
Commission under the foregoing provisions of this section,
in such manner and to
such extent as the Commission thinks fit but the Commission has no legal duty
to operate any shipping service.
[Section 13 amended: No. 35 of 1997 s. 5.]