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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Trader1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 416 duties

Companies Act 2006 243 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 133 duties

Companies Act 1985 85 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 62 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.074 Further provisions relating to the capital structure of certain relevant companies. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Issue debt securities if directed by the Secretary of StateCrown / Minister / Government department

s.112 Schemes in relation to postal and money orders. Regulated

Issue postal or money orders only in accordance with a published schemeTrader

142 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 The Postal Services Commission.

s.002 The Consumer Council for Postal Services.

s.003 Duty of the Commission to ensure provision of a universal postal service.

s.004 Provision of a universal postal service: meaning.

s.005 Other duties of the Commission in the consumer interest.

s.006 Restriction on provision of postal services.

s.007 Exceptions from section 6.

s.007 Licences for Postal Services

s.008 Power to modify section 7 by order.

s.009 General power to suspend the restriction.

s.010 Emergency power to suspend the restriction.

s.011 Licences: general.

s.012 Licences: grant.

s.012 Licences: refusal

s.012 Licences: determination of applications

s.013 Licences: conditions and other provisions.

s.014 Modification of licences by agreement.

s.015 References to the Competition Commission.

s.015 References under section 15: time limits

s.015 References under section 15: application of Enterprise Act 2002

s.016 Reports on references.

s.016 Reports on references under section 15: further provision

s.017 Modification following report.

s.018 Power of intervention of the Competition Commission.

s.019 Procedural requirements in relation to modifications.

s.019 Sections 18 and 19: further provision

s.020 Application of competition legislation to references

s.021 Modification by order under other enactments.

s.022 Final orders.

s.023 Provisional orders.

s.024 Confirmation of provisional orders.

s.025 Exceptions from duty to make or confirm enforcement orders.

s.026 Enforcement orders: main procedural requirements.

s.027 Enforcement orders: further procedural requirements.

s.028 Validity of enforcement orders.

s.029 Effect of enforcement orders.

s.030 Financial penalties.

s.031 Statement of policy in relation to penalties.

s.032 Imposition of penalties: main procedural requirements.

s.033 Penalties: further procedural requirements.

s.034 Time-limits on the imposition of penalties.

s.035 Interest and payments by instalment.

s.036 Appeals.

s.037 Recovery of penalties.

s.038 Register.

s.039 Recovery of costs of the Council etc.

s.039 Licences and the new arrangements

s.040 Directors’ remuneration.

s.041 Free services for the blind and partially sighted.

s.042 Duties in relation to public post offices.

s.043 Duties in relation to social and environmental matters.

s.044 Review and information.

s.045 Annual and other reports: the Commission.

s.046 Publication of information and advice: the Commission.

s.047 Power of the Commission to require information.

s.048 Information powers: enforcement.

s.049 Powers of entry and seizure.

s.050 Codes of practice.

s.051 Relevant postal issues.

s.052 Provision of advice and information to public authorities and licence holders.

s.053 Publication of information to users.

s.054 Exercise of functions: general.

s.055 Annual and other reports: the Council.

s.056 Complaints referred to the Council.

s.057 Power of the Council to investigate other matters.

s.058 Power of the Council to require information.

s.059 Provision of information by the Council to the Commission.

s.060 Memorandum of understanding.

s.061 Forward work programmes.

s.061 Information relating to complaints handling standards

s.062 Transfer of property etc. to nominated company.

s.063 Power to direct issue of certain securities etc

s.064 Government investment in securities of certain companies.

s.065 Restriction on issue of shares to third parties.

s.066 Restriction on disposals of shares to third parties.

s.067 Approved disposals.

s.068 Loans by the Secretary of State to relevant companies.

s.069 Guarantees by the Secretary of State for relevant companies.

s.070 Extinguishment of certain liabilities.

s.071 Limit on loans and other arrangements with government.

s.072 Reserves of relevant companies.

s.073 Statutory accounts of the original holding company.

s.075 Dissolution of the Post Office.

s.076 Accounts of the Secretary of State in relation to loans.

s.077 Publicity requirements for certain accounts and reports ....

s.078 Information requirements on certain relevant companies.

s.079 Exercise of functions through nominees.

s.080 Shadow directors.

s.081 Tax.

s.082 Interpretation: Part IV.

s.083 Interfering with the mail: postal operators.

s.084 Interfering with the mail: general.

s.085 Prohibition on sending certain articles by post.

s.086 Prohibition on affixing advertisements on certain letter boxes etc.

s.087 Prohibition on misleading descriptions.

s.088 Obstruction of business of universal service providers.

s.089 Schemes as to terms and conditions for provision of postal services.

s.089 Powers of

s.090 Exclusion of liability.

s.091 Limited liability for postal packets.

s.092 Section 91: supplementary.

s.093 Power to modify sections 89 to 92.

s.094 Power to require carriage of mail-bags by ship or aircraft.

s.095 Power to acquire land etc.

s.096 Immunity from prosecution.

s.097 Harbour charges on mail-bags.

s.098 Mail-bags not to be subject to control by harbour authorities.

s.099 Common carriers.

s.100 Certain exemptions from postage etc.

s.101 Directions in interests of national security etc.

s.102 Power to ensure compliance with the Postal Services Directive.

s.103 Subsidy for public post offices.

s.104 Inviolability of mails.

s.104 Power to detain packets in respect of unpaid or underpaid postage

s.105 Application of customs and excise enactments to certain postal packets.

s.105 Section 105: limit on handling charges etc

s.106 Power to detain postal packets containing contraband.

s.107 Conditions of transit of postal packets.

s.108 Evidence of amount of postage etc.

s.109 Evidence of thing being a postal packet.

s.110 Certificates in relation to universal postal service letter boxes.

s.111 Exclusion of liability in relation to postal and money orders.

s.113 Recoupment of losses on wrongly paid money orders.

s.114 Special arrangements with other countries or territories.

s.115 Extension of existing powers relating to the Post Office.

s.116 The Postcode Address File.

s.117 Records of the former Postmaster General’s department.

s.118 Supplementary provisions relating to the Council.

s.119 General restrictions on disclosure of information.

s.120 Offences by bodies corporate.

s.121 Service of documents.

s.122 Orders and regulations.

s.123 Directions.

s.124 General financial provision.

s.125 Interpretation.

s.126 Index of defined expressions.

s.127 General amendments and repeals.

s.128 Modifications of local enactments etc.

s.129 Transitional provisions etc.

s.130 Commencement.

s.131 Short title and extent.

s.para.264 Note: The repeal of section 52 of the Post Office...

Schedules

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120 other schedules

s.sch001 The Postal Services Commission

s.sch002 The Consumer Council for Postal Services

s.sch003 (1) Anything (including any legal proceedings) which, immediately before the...

s.sch003 Transfer to the original holding company: supplementary provisions

s.sch003 (1) The original holding company shall, on and after the...

s.sch003 Section 6(2) of the Commonwealth Telegraphs Act 1949 (which provides...

s.sch003 (1) Trustees appointed by the original holding company shall hold...

s.sch003 (1) This paragraph applies to— (a) a fund (whether described...

s.sch003 Transfer to the original holding company: supplementary provisions

s.sch003 A person dealing with the original holding company in respect...

s.sch003 Transfer to the original holding company: supplementary provisions

s.sch004 The Post Office company shall, on and after the appointed...

s.sch004 Any share issued by the Post Office company or any...

s.sch004 Any security (other than a share) issued by the Post...

s.sch004 Any debt assumed by the Post Office company under section...

s.sch004 The existence or exercise of the powers of the Secretary...

s.sch004 Nothing in this Part and nothing done under it shall...

s.sch004 The Act of 1992 shall apply in relation to a...

s.sch004 The Post Office company shall, on and after the appointed...

s.sch004 Transfer to the Post Office company: tax

s.sch005 (1) The Secretary of State may authorise a universal service...

s.sch005 Section 11 of that Act (powers of entry) shall be...

s.sch005 Section 20 of that Act (protection for interests of tenants...

s.sch005 Section 22 of that Act (protection of acquiring authority’s possession...

s.sch005 The enactments in force in England and Wales with respect...

s.sch005 The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947 shall...

s.sch005 The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947, and...

s.sch005 Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 15 above, Part...

s.sch005 In paragraph 9 of that Schedule (compulsory purchase affecting land...

s.sch005 In paragraph 10 of that Schedule (land of statutory undertakers)—...

s.sch005 In paragraph 11 of that Schedule (common or open space),...

s.sch005 (1) The Secretary of State may authorise a universal service...

s.sch005 Paragraph 3(1) of the Second Schedule to the Acquisition of...

s.sch005 For paragraph 4 of that Schedule (protection for owner against...

s.sch005 Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 15 above, the...

s.sch005 For section 61 of that Act (estimation of compensation) there...

s.sch005 The following provisions of that Act (being provisions stating the...

s.sch005 Sections 114 (compensation to be made to tenants for a...

s.sch005 Sections 117 (protection of promoter of undertaking where by inadvertence...

s.sch005 The enactments in force in Scotland with respect to compensation...

s.sch005 For the purposes of the acquisition of land by means...

s.sch005 The modifications mentioned in paragraph 28 are—

s.sch005 (1) Where a universal service provider proposes to acquire, otherwise...

s.sch005 The enactments for the time being in force relating to...

s.sch005 (1) The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 shall apply to...

s.sch005 The Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 shall have effect with the...

s.sch005 Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 5, Part I...

s.sch005 For section 7 of that Act (measure of compensation) there...

s.sch005 Section 8(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 has effect...

s.sch005 (1) The provisions of that Act referred to in sub-paragraph...

s.sch006 (1) A universal service provider may, for any purpose in...

s.sch006 Any land acquired by agreement by a universal service provider...

s.sch006 (1) A person authorised in writing by a universal service...

s.sch006 (1) A person authorised to enter upon any land under...

s.sch006 (1) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person acting in...

s.sch006 (1) If in the exercise of any power conferred by...

s.sch006 For the purpose of the acquisition by agreement by a...

s.sch006 If a universal service provider proposes to acquire by agreement...

s.sch007 Disclosure of information

s.sch008 (1) Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or...

s.sch008 In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 the...

s.sch008 Amendments of enactments

s.sch008 In paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Increase)...

s.sch008 In Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 (kinds of...

s.sch008 (1) Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act...

s.sch008 In Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act of...

s.sch008 Amendments of enactments

s.sch008 (1) Section 91 of the Representation of the People Act...

s.sch008 After section 200 of that Act there shall be inserted—...

s.sch008 (1) Section 134 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (correspondence...

s.sch008 (1) Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or...

s.sch008 In section 371(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (re-direction of...

s.sch008 In section 43(6D)(a) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988...

s.sch008 (1) The Value Added Tax Act 1994 shall be amended...

s.sch008 In regulation 2 of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995...

s.sch008 In section 11 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995...

s.sch008 In Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Rating Act...

s.sch008 For paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Northern Ireland...

s.sch008 In Regulation 2(1) of the Postal Services Regulations 1999 (designation...

s.sch008 (1) Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or...

s.sch008 (1) Any reference (however worded and including references which are...

s.sch008 (1) The Secretary of State may by order provide for...

s.sch008 (1) In this Part of this Schedule, “future enactment” means...

s.sch008 In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition...

s.sch008 In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (departments...

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Postal Services Act 2000

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