Western Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act 1965. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision Western Australia Document type Legislation Date 1965 (2009) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to establish a Western Australian Coastal Shipping Commission to operate certain shipping services, and for incidental and other purposes. Subject Sea Keyword Institution Navigation Coastal zone management Transport/storage Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract This Act, consisting of 39 sections divided into four Parts, establishes a Western Australian Coastal Shipping Commission to operate certain shipping services. This Commission is a body corporate with perpetual succession and shall have a common seal, capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property in or outside the Commonwealth and of suing and being sued in that name; is a corporate agency of the Crown in right of the State; is capable of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer; and has, subject to the Minister, the general administration of this Act. 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; 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. Full text English Website www7.austlii.edu.au