AUSTRALIAN MARITIME SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT 1990 - SECT 6 Functions of Authority

AUSTRALIAN MARITIME SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT 1990 - SECT 6

  (1)   The functions of the Authority are:

  (a)   to combat pollution in the marine environment; and

  (b)   to provide a search and rescue service; and

  (c)   to provide, on request, services to the maritime industry on a commercial basis; and

  (ca)   to provide on request services of a maritime nature, on a commercial basis, to:

  (i)   the Commonwealth, a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory ; or

  (ii)   an authority or agency of the Commonwealth, a State or either of those Territories; and

  (cb)   to cooperate with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in relation to investigations under the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 that relate to aircraft and ships; and

  (d)   to perform such other functions as are conferred on it by or under any other Act; and

  (e)   to provide consultancy and management services relating to any of the matters referred to in this subsection; and

  (f)   to perform any other prescribed functions relating to any of the matters referred to in this subsection; and

  (g)   to perform functions incidental to any of the previously described functions.

  (2)   The Authority may provide its services both within and outside Australia .

  (3)   Subject to section   8, the functions to provide services may be performed at the discretion of the Authority.

  (4)   The Authority must not perform any of its functions otherwise than for a purpose in respect of which the Parliament has the power to make laws.

  (5)   The provision of a search and rescue service must be in a manner that is consistent with Australia 's obligations under:

  (a)   the Chicago Convention; and

  (b)   the Safety Convention; and

  (c)   the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue 1979 done at Hamburg on 27   April 1979.