Postal Services Act 2011 (Version in vigour from 2022-01-13 to )

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Coming into Force	13 January 2022

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Postal Services Act 2011
Part 1: Restructuring of Royal Mail group

Removal of existing statutory restrictions on ownership

1: Removal of restrictions on ownership of Royal Mail Holdings plc etc

Ownership of the Royal Mail

2: Report on decision to dispose of shares in a Royal Mail company etc
3: Employee share scheme

Ownership of the Post Office

4: Restrictions on issue and transfer of shares and share rights in a Post Office company etc
5: Report on transfer of interest in a Post Office company to a relevant mutual
6: Meaning of “Post Office company”
7: Meaning of “relevant mutual”

Transfer of property etc

8: Transfer schemes
9: Transfer of employees otherwise than under transfer scheme
10: Taxation provisions relating to re-structuring

Supplementary provisions

11: Annual report on post office network
12: Annual report on postal museum collection and archive
13: Directions

Interpretation

14: Ownership of companies
15: Part 1: general interpretation

Part 2: Royal Mail Pension Plan

Introduction

16: Introduction

Powers exercisable

17: Transfer of qualifying accrued rights to new public scheme
18: Division of the RMPP into different sections
19: Amendments of the RMPP
20: Protection against adverse treatment
21: Transfer of assets of the RMPP
22: Restriction on power to transfer assets

Supplementary provisions

23: Taxation
24: Information
25: Orders and regulations
26: Interpretation of Part 2

Part 3: Regulation of postal services

Postal services

27: Postal services, postal packets and postal operators
28: General authorisation to provide postal services

The universal postal service

29: Duty to secure provision of universal postal service
30: The universal postal service
31: Minimum requirements
32: Section 31: definitions
33: Exceptions to minimum requirements
34: Review of minimum requirements

Universal service providers

35: Designation of universal service providers
36: Designated USP conditions
37: Publication of information about performance
38: USP access conditions
39: USP accounting conditions

Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service

40: Services within scope of the universal postal service
41: Notification condition
42: General universal service conditions
43: Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM

Financial support for universal postal service

44: Review of costs of universal service obligations
45: Fairness of bearing burden of universal service obligations
46: Contributions for meeting burden
47: Report on sharing mechanism

Postal operators generally

48: Notification by postal operators
49: Essential conditions
50: General access conditions
51: Consumer protection conditions
52: Provision that may be made by consumer protection conditions

General provisions

53: Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
54: Enforcement of regulatory requirements
55: Information
56: General restriction on disclosure of information

Appeals

57: Decisions by OFCOM to impose regulatory conditions, penalties etc
58: Appeals from the CAT
59: Price control decisions
60: Section 59: supplementary

Supplementary and consequential provisions

61: Duties in relation to social and environmental matters
62: UK postage stamps bearing image of Her Majesty
63: Orders, schemes and regulations made by OFCOM
64: Abolition of Postal Services Commission etc
65: Interpretation of Part 3 etc
66: Transitional provisions for Part 3
67: Review of Part 3

Part 4: Special administration regime

Postal administration orders

68: Postal administration orders
69: Objective of a postal administration
70: Applications for postal administration orders
71: Powers of court
72: Postal administrators
73: Conduct of administration, transfer schemes etc

Restrictions on other insolvency procedures

74: Winding-up orders
75: Voluntary winding up
76: Making of ordinary administration orders
77: Administrator appointments by creditors etc
78: Enforcement of security

Financial support for companies in administration

79: Grants and loans
80: Indemnities
81: Guarantees where postal administration order is made

Modifications of regulatory conditions etc

82: Regulatory powers exercisable during postal administration
83: Regulatory conditions to secure funding of postal administration order

Supplementary provisions

84: Modification of Part 4 under Enterprise Act 2002: The power to modify or apply enactments conferred on the Secretary of State by—
85: Interpretation of Part 4
86: Partnerships
87: Northern Ireland
88: Review of Part 4

Part 5: General

89: Orders and regulations made by Ministers of Crown

90: Minor definitions
91: Minor and consequential amendments

92: Financial provisions: There is to be paid out of money provided by Parliament—

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