13Section 7 of the Post Office Act 1969 (Post Office powers), shall be amended as follows—
(a)there shall be substituted for the word “and” at the end of subsection (1)(e) the words—
“(ee)with the consent of, or in accordance with the terms of a general authorisation given by, the Secretary of State, to perform, in such parts of post offices as are open to the public for the transaction of postal business, such services for any operator of a public passenger transport service (within the meaning of the Transport Act 1985), or any subsidiary of such an operator, as it thinks fit, being services which are connected with the provision of public passenger transport services; and”; and
(b)in subsection (1A)(f), the words from “above” to the end shall be omitted.