Postal Services Act 2000

13 Licences: conditions and other provisions

(1) A licence may include such provisions as the Commission considers appropriate; and a provision need not relate to anything authorised by the licence.

(2) The provisions of a licence may, in particular, require a payment to the Commission on the grant of the licence, or payments while the licence is in force, or both, of such amount or amounts as may be specified in the licence or determined by or under it.

(3) Such provisions of a licence as the Commission considers appropriate may be expressed as conditions.

(4) The Commission shall consult any person who is to be granted a licence about any conditions that the Commission proposes to include in the licence (other than any condition which the Commission is required to include in the licence by virtue of this Act).

(5) References in this Act to a condition of a licence are to a provision of a licence which is expressed as a condition.

(6) Subject to subsection (7) no action shall lie or, in Scotland, be competent in respect of a contravention by a licence holder of a condition of his licence.

(7) Subsection (6) does not affect—

(a) a right of action in respect of an act or omission which takes place in the course of the provision of any postal services or the doing of anything else to which the condition relates,

(b) the power to make an order under section 22 or 23, confirm an order made under section 23 or impose a penalty under section 30,

(c) the duty to comply with any such order or pay any such penalty and a power to bring proceedings in respect of such a duty.