(1) The principal objectives of every statutory SOC are--
(a) to be a
successful business and, to this end--
(i) to operate at least as efficiently
as any comparable businesses, and
(ii) to maximise the net worth of
the State's investment in the SOC, and
(b) to exhibit a sense of social
responsibility by having regard to the interests of the community in which it
operates, and
(c) where its activities affect the environment, to conduct its
operations in compliance with the principles of ecologically sustainable
development contained in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment
Administration Act 1991 , and
(d) to exhibit a sense of responsibility
towards regional development and decentralisation in the way in which it
operates.
(2) Each of the principal objectives of a statutory SOC is of equal
importance.
