(1)No proceedings in tort shall lie or, in Scotland, be competent against a universal service provider in respect of loss or damage suffered by any person in connection with the provision of a universal postal service because of—
(a)anything done or omitted to be done in relation to any postal packet in the course of transmission by post, or
(b)any omission to carry out arrangements for the collection of anything to be conveyed by post.
(2)No officer, servant, employee, agent or sub-contractor of a universal service provider shall be subject, except at the suit or instance of the provider, to any civil liability for—
(a)any loss or damage in the case of which liability of the provider is excluded by subsection (1), or
(b)any loss of, or damage to, an inland packet to which section 91 applies.
(3)No person engaged in or about the conveyance of postal packets and no officer, servant, employee, agent or sub-contractor of any such person shall be subject, except at the suit or instance of the universal service provider concerned, to any civil liability for—
(a)any loss or damage in the case of which liability of the provider is excluded by subsection (1), or
(b)any loss of, or damage to, an inland packet to which section 91 applies.
(4)In the application of subsection (1) to Scotland, the reference to proceedings in tort shall be construed in the same way as in section 43(b) of the M1Crown Proceedings Act 1947.
(5)This section is subject to section 91.
Commencement Information
I1S. 90 wholly in force at 26.3.2001, see s. 130 and S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3-42)
Marginal Citations