Recorded Delivery Service Act 1962
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1962 c. 27 |
| Year | 1962 |
Recorded Delivery Service Act, 1962
(10 & 11 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 27
An Act to authorise the sending by the recorded delivery service of certain documents and other things required or authorised to be sent by registered post; and for purposes connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Recorded delivery service to be an alternative to registered post.
(1) Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or other thing to be sent by registered post (whether or not it makes any other provision in relation thereto) shall have effect as if it required or, as the case may be, authorised that thing to be sent by registered post or the recorded delivery service; and any enactment which makes any other provision in relation to the sending of a document or other thing by registered post or to a thing so sent shall have effect as if it made the like provision in relation to the sending of that thing by the recorded delivery service or, as the case may be, to a thing sent by that service.
(2) The Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of making consequential adaptations of the enactments therein mentioned.
(3) Subject to the following subsection the Postmaster General may by order make such amendments of any enactment contained in a local or private Act (being an enactment to which this Act applies) as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of subsection (1) of this section.
(4) Before making an order under this section, the Postmaster General shall, unless it appears to him to be impracticable to do so, consult with the person who promoted the Bill for the Act to which the order relates, or where it appears to the Postmaster General that some other person has succeeded to the promoter's interest in that Act, that other person.
(5) Any order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order thereunder, and the power to make any such order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(6) This section shall not be construed as authorising the sending by the recorded delivery service of anything which under the Post Office Act, 1953 , or any instrument thereunder is not allowed to be sent by that service.
2 Application and interpretation.
(1) Subject to the next following subsection, this Act applies to the following enactments, that is to say,—
(a ) the provisions of any Act (whether public general, local or private) passed before or in the same Session as this Act;
(b ) the provisions of any Church Assembly Measure so passed;
(c ) the provisions of any agricultural marketing scheme made under the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1958 , before the passing of this Act or having...
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