Meaning of service
72 Meaning of service
Service is a service provided, or to be provided, by means of a facility and includes, for example—
the use of a facility (including, for example, a road or railway line); and
the transporting of people; and
the handling or transporting of goods or other things; and
a communications service or similar service.
However, service does not include—
the supply of goods (except to the extent the supply is an integral, but subsidiary, part of the service); or
the use of intellectual property or a production process (except to the extent the use is an integral, but subsidiary, part of the service); or
a service—
provided, or to be provided, by means of a facility for which a decision of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, approving a competitive tender process under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cwlth), section 44PA, is in force; and
that was stated under section 44PA(2) of that Act in the application for the approval.
Subsections (1) and (2) apply only for this part.
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