S. 20(1)(a)(c) and word “and” at the end of para. (c) repealed (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(2), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 4(11))

S. 20(1)(b)(d) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 152(3), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5

S. 20(2) repealed (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(2), Sch. 2 (with art. 4(11))

S. 21 repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 7 Pt. I

1865 c. 87.

1876 c. iii.

1913 c. cxvi.

1954 c. xxix.

1959 c. 43.

1966 c. 25.

The text of ss. 20(2), 22(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

1930 c. clxxix.

1950 c. v.

Ss. 23–27 repealed by British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38), Sch. 6 Pt. II

Pt. III (ss. 6–88) amended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 57(7), Sch. 13 para. 13(c)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/48/part/III/crossheading/transfer-to-the-post-office-of-the-postmaster-generals-statutory-rights-and-liabilities-as-to-mails-and-telegraphs-and-of-rights-and-liabilities-c-of-his-under-certain-acts-authorising-the-acquisition-of-land-or-the-execution-of-works/2003-11-12Post Office Act 1969An Act to abolish the office of master of the Post Office, distribute the business conducted by the holder thereof amongst authorities constituted for the purpose and make provision consequential on the abolition of that office and the distribution of the business so conducted; to amend, replace or repeal certain provisions of the enactments relating to posts, telegraphs and savings banks; to amend the law relating to stamp duty; and to empower the Treasury to dispose of their interest in the shares of Cable and Wireless Limited.1983-01-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-17Expert Participation2003-11-12Part III The new Authority for the Conduct of postal and telegraphic Business Transfer to the Post Office of the Postmaster General’s statutory Rights and Liabilities as to Mails and Telegraphs and of Rights and Liabilities, &c., of his under certain Acts authorising the Acquisition of Land or the Execution of Works
20 Rights and liabilities as to conveyance of mails.1

On the appointed day—

a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

b

the rights which, by virtue of sections 33, 34, 36(1) and 42 of the principal Act (which contain provisions enabling him to compel railway undertakers to undertake the conveyance of mail-bags by train and by ships which are owned or worked by them or in the case of which they are parties to arrangements for the use, maintenance or working thereof) he enjoys immediately before that day and the countervailing obligations with respect to payment of remuneration for services performed which, immediately before that day, are, by virtue of sections 35 and 36(2) of the principal Act, incumbent on him shall become those of the Post Office;

c

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

d

the obligation to him which, by virtue of subsection (1) of section 38 of the principal Act, is, immediately before that day, incumbent on railway undertakers to perform services with respect to the conveyance of mail-bags and the other matters mentioned in that subsection and the right which, by virtue of subsection (2) of that section, they enjoy, immediately before that day, to receive from him remuneration for services performed shall respectively become an obligation to the Post Office and a right against it.

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

22 Rights and liabilities, &c., arising out of Acts authorising the acquisition of land or the execution of works.1

Any provision of the Sites Acts, the Post Office Extension Act 1865, the Manchester Post Office Act 1876, the Post Office (London) Railway Act 1913, the Post Office (Site and Railway) Act 1954, the Post Office Works Act 1959 or the Post Office Subway Act 1966 which is in force immediately before the appointed day and contains references to the Postmaster General shall, so far as necessary for preserving its effect on and after that day, have effect as from that day as if those references were references to the Post Office.

2

As from the appointed day, any rights or powers vested in, or exercisable by, the Post Office under the enactments relating to telegraphs in respect of works of any kind whatsoever executed under those enactments shall extend to, and may be exercised by it in respect of, the portions of the tube constructed by the Pneumatic Despatch Company, Limited, that vest in the Post Office by virtue of section 16 of this Act.

3

Section 20 of the Bristol Cattle Market Act 1930 (which empowers the Postmaster General, amongst others, to enter into and carry out agreements with reference to any of the matters referred to in that Act or the agreements mentioned in that section) shall, as from the appointed day, have effect with the substitution, for the reference to the Postmaster General, of a reference to the Post Office.

4

Section 16 of the City of London (Various Powers) Act 1950 (which provides for the continuance of the making, by the Postmaster General, the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London acting by the common council and the Mercers’ Company of certain periodic payments to the incumbents and clerks of certain benefices in the city, being payments originally required to be made under enactments repealed by that Act) shall, as from the appointed day, have effect as if, in Schedule 1 to that Act, for references to the Postmaster General, there were substituted references to the Post Office; and the rights of indemnity in favour of the Postmaster General that are saved by the proviso to section 18 of that Act shall, as from that day, enure for the benefit of the Post Office and the charges on property to secure the payment of money payable to the Postmaster General in respect of indemnities so saved which are themselves also saved by that proviso shall, as from that day, have effect accordingly.

5

The reference in subsection (1) above to the Sites Acts is a reference to the Acts passed during the years 1885 to 1938 (both inclusive) the short title of each of which consists of the words “The Post Office (Sites) Act” followed by the year in which it was passed.

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<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/20/1/a/c">S. 20(1)(a)(c)</ref>
and word “and” at the end of para. (c) repealed (26.3.2001) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149">S.I. 2001/1149</ref>
,
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,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
(with
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/article/1/3">arts. 1(3)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/article/4/11">4(11)</ref>
)
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c11854481">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/20/1/b/d">S. 20(1)(b)(d)</ref>
repealed (1.4.1994) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/43">1993 c. 43</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/43/section/152/3">ss. 152(3)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/43/schedule/14">Sch. 14</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/571">S.I. 1994/571</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/571/article/5">art. 5</ref>
</p>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c11854511">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/20/2">S. 20(2)</ref>
repealed (26.3.2001) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149">S.I. 2001/1149</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/article/3/2">art. 3(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
(with
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/1149/article/4/11">art. 4(11)</ref>
)
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c11854521">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/21">S. 21</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/12">Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/12/section/109">s. 109</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/12/schedule/7/part/I">Sch. 7 Pt. I</ref>
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854531">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1865/87">1865 c. 87</ref>
.
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854541">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukla/1876/3">1876 c. iii</ref>
.
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854551">
<p>1913 c. cxvi. </p>
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854561">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukla/1954/29">1954 c. xxix</ref>
.
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854571">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/43">1959 c. 43</ref>
.
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854581">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1966/25">1966 c. 25</ref>
.
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</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c11854591">
<p>The text of ss. 20(2), 22(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</p>
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854601">
<p>1930 c. clxxix. </p>
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<note class="commentary M" eId="c11854611">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukla/1950/5">1950 c. v</ref>
.
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c11854621">
<p>
<rref from="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/23" upTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/section/27">Ss. 23–27</rref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/38">British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/38/schedule/6/part/II">Sch. 6 Pt. II</ref>
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<note class="commentary C" eId="c11849951">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/48/part/III">Pt. III</ref>
(ss. 6–88) amended by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51">Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/section/57/7">s. 57(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/schedule/13/paragraph/13">Sch. 13 para. 13</ref>
(
<em>c</em>
)
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Part III
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<heading> The new Authority for the Conduct of postal and telegraphic Business</heading>
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<heading> Transfer to the Post Office of the Postmaster General’s statutory Rights and Liabilities as to Mails and Telegraphs and of Rights and Liabilities, &c., of his under certain Acts authorising the Acquisition of Land or the Execution of Works</heading>
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<heading> Rights and liabilities as to conveyance of mails.</heading>
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<p>On the appointed day—</p>
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a
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<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<ins class="d29p471 last">the rights which, by virtue of sections 33, 34, 36(1) and 42 of the principal Act (which contain provisions enabling him to compel railway undertakers to undertake the conveyance of mail-bags by train and by ships which are owned or worked by them or in the case of which they are parties to arrangements for the use, maintenance or working thereof) he enjoys immediately before that day and the countervailing obligations with respect to payment of remuneration for services performed which, immediately before that day, are, by virtue of sections 35 and 36(2) of the principal Act, incumbent on him shall become those of the Post Office;</ins>
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<ins class="d29p487 last">the obligation to him which, by virtue of subsection (1) of section 38 of the principal Act, is, immediately before that day, incumbent on railway undertakers to perform services with respect to the conveyance of mail-bags and the other matters mentioned in that subsection and the right which, by virtue of subsection (2) of that section, they enjoy, immediately before that day, to receive from him remuneration for services performed shall respectively become an obligation to the Post Office and a right against it.</ins>
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2
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<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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<p/>
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<num>22</num>
<heading> Rights and liabilities, &c., arising out of Acts authorising the acquisition of land or the execution of works.</heading>
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Any provision of the Sites Acts, the
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Post Office Extension Act 1865, the
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Manchester Post Office Act 1876, the
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Post Office (London) Railway Act 1913, the
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Post Office (Site and Railway) Act 1954, the
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Post Office Works Act 1959 or the
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Post Office Subway Act 1966 which is in force immediately before the appointed day and contains references to the Postmaster General shall, so far as necessary for preserving its effect on and after that day, have effect as from that day as if those references were references to the Post Office.
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<p>As from the appointed day, any rights or powers vested in, or exercisable by, the Post Office under the enactments relating to telegraphs in respect of works of any kind whatsoever executed under those enactments shall extend to, and may be exercised by it in respect of, the portions of the tube constructed by the Pneumatic Despatch Company, Limited, that vest in the Post Office by virtue of section 16 of this Act.</p>
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3
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Section 20 of the
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Bristol Cattle Market Act 1930 (which empowers the Postmaster General, amongst others, to enter into and carry out agreements with reference to any of the matters referred to in that Act or the agreements mentioned in that section) shall, as from the appointed day, have effect with the substitution, for the reference to the Postmaster General, of a reference to the Post Office.
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<num>4</num>
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<p>
Section 16 of the
<noteRef href="#c11854611" marker="M8" class="commentary M"/>
City of London (Various Powers) Act 1950 (which provides for the continuance of the making, by the Postmaster General, the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London acting by the common council and the Mercers’ Company of certain periodic payments to the incumbents and clerks of certain benefices in the city, being payments originally required to be made under enactments repealed by that Act) shall, as from the appointed day, have effect as if, in Schedule 1 to that Act, for references to the Postmaster General, there were substituted references to the Post Office; and the rights of indemnity in favour of the Postmaster General that are saved by the proviso to section 18 of that Act shall, as from that day, enure for the benefit of the Post Office and the charges on property to secure the payment of money payable to the Postmaster General in respect of indemnities so saved which are themselves also saved by that proviso shall, as from that day, have effect accordingly.
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<p>The reference in subsection (1) above to the Sites Acts is a reference to the Acts passed during the years 1885 to 1938 (both inclusive) the short title of each of which consists of the words “The Post Office (Sites) Act” followed by the year in which it was passed.</p>
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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