Postal Services Act 2000

17 (1) Section 91 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (candidate’s right to send election address post free) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) for the words “Post Office regulations” there shall be substituted “such reasonable terms and conditions as the universal service provider concerned may specify”,

(b) after the word “of”, where it first appears, there shall be inserted “any”,

(c) after the word “postage” there shall be inserted “which would otherwise be made by a universal service provider”, and

(d) for the words “regulations” in paragraph (a) there shall be substituted “terms and conditions”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) after “any” there shall be inserted “such”, and

(b) after “postage” there shall be inserted “as mentioned above”.

(4) In subsection (3) for “the Post Office” there shall be substituted “the universal service provider concerned”.

(5) After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(5) In this section “universal service provider” has the same meaning as in the Postal Services Act 2000.”