http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/108Postal Services Act 2000An Act to establish the Postal Services Commission and the Consumer Council for Postal Services; to provide for the licensing of certain postal services and for a universal postal service; to provide for the vesting of the property, rights and liabilities of the Post Office in a company nominated by the Secretary of State and for the subsequent dissolution of the Post Office; to make further provision in relation to postal services; and for connected purposes.2000-08-02texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-04-24Expert Participation2024-04-01 Part VII Miscellaneous and supplementary Evidential provisions Evidence of amount of postage <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation>1081The mark of—aa universal service provider in connection with the provision of a universal postal service, orba foreign postal administration,of any sum on any postal packet as due in respect of that packet shall, unless the contrary is shown, be sufficient proof in any legal proceedings of the liability of the packet to the sum so marked.2Subsections (3) to (5) apply in relation to any legal proceedings for the recovery of postage or other sums due in respect of postal packets.3In any such proceedings, the production of the packet concerned with a stamp or other endorsement on it of a universal service provider (and made in connection with the provision of a universal postal service) or of a foreign postal administration indicating that the packet—ahas been refused or rejected,bis unclaimed, orccannot for any other reason be delivered,shall, unless the contrary is shown, be sufficient proof of the fact indicated.4In any such proceedings, a certificate of a universal service provider that any mark, stamp or endorsement is such a mark, stamp or endorsement as is mentioned in subsection (1) or (3) shall, unless the contrary is shown, be sufficient proof of that fact.5In any such proceedings, the person from whom the packet concerned purports to have come shall, unless the contrary is shown, be taken to be the sender of the packet.S. 108 wholly in force at 26.3.2001, see s. 130 and S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3 42)S. 108 applied (22.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1148, art. 30 (with art. 34)
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