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Introductory Text
Part 1 Restructuring of Royal Mail group
Removal of existing statutory restrictions on ownership
1.Removal of restrictions on ownership of Royal Mail Holdings plc etc
Ownership of the Royal Mail
2.Report on decision to dispose of shares in a Royal Mail company etc
3.Employee share scheme
Ownership of the Post Office
4.Restrictions on issue and transfer of shares and share rights in a Post Office company etc
5.Report on transfer of interest in a Post Office company to a relevant mutual
6.Meaning of “Post Office company”
7.Meaning of “relevant mutual”
Transfer of property etc
8.Transfer schemes
9.Transfer of employees otherwise than under transfer scheme
10.Taxation provisions relating to re-structuring
Supplementary provisions
11.Annual report on post office network
12.Annual report on postal museum collection and archive
13.Directions
Interpretation
14.Ownership of companies
15.Part 1: general interpretation
Part 2 Royal Mail Pension Plan
Introduction
16.Introduction
Powers exercisable
17.Transfer of qualifying accrued rights to new public scheme
18.Division of the RMPP into different sections
19.Amendments of the RMPP
20.Protection against adverse treatment
21.Transfer of assets of the RMPP
22.Restriction on power to transfer assets
23.Taxation
24.Information
25.Orders and regulations
26.Interpretation of Part 2
Part 3 Regulation of postal services
Postal services
27.Postal services, postal packets and postal operators
28.General authorisation to provide postal services
The universal postal service
29.Duty to secure provision of universal postal service
30.The universal postal service
31.Minimum requirements
32.Section 31: definitions
33.Exceptions to minimum requirements
34.Review of minimum requirements
Universal service providers
35.Designation of universal service providers
36.Designated USP conditions
37.Publication of information about performance
38.USP access conditions
39.USP accounting conditions
Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service
40.Services within scope of the universal postal service
41.Notification condition
42.General universal service conditions
43.Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM
Financial support for universal postal service
44.Review of costs of universal service obligations
45.Fairness of bearing burden of universal service obligations
46.Contributions for meeting burden
47.Report on sharing mechanism
Postal operators generally
48.Notification by postal operators
49.Essential conditions
50.General access conditions
51.Consumer protection conditions
52.Provision that may be made by consumer protection conditions
General provisions
53.Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
54.Enforcement of regulatory requirements
55.Information
56.General restriction on disclosure of information
Appeals
57.Decisions by OFCOM to impose regulatory conditions, penalties etc
58.Appeals from the CAT
59.Price control decisions
60.Section 59: supplementary
Supplementary and consequential provisions
61.Duties in relation to social and environmental matters
62.UK postage stamps bearing image of Her Majesty
63.Orders, schemes and regulations made by OFCOM
64.Abolition of Postal Services Commission etc
65.Interpretation of Part 3 etc
66.Transitional provisions for Part 3
67.Review of Part 3
Part 4 Special administration regime
Postal administration orders
68.Postal administration orders
69.Objective of a postal administration
70.Applications for postal administration orders
71.Powers of court
72.Postal administrators
73.Conduct of administration, transfer schemes etc
Restrictions on other insolvency procedures
74.Winding-up orders
75.Voluntary winding up
76.Making of ordinary administration orders
77.Administrator appointments by creditors etc
78.Enforcement of security
Financial support for companies in administration
79.Grants and loans
80.Indemnities
81.Guarantees where postal administration order is made
Modifications of regulatory conditions etc
82.Regulatory powers exercisable during postal administration
83.Regulatory conditions to secure funding of postal administration order
84.Modification of Part 4 under Enterprise Act 2002
85.Interpretation of Part 4
86.Partnerships
87.Northern Ireland
88.Review of Part 4
Part 5 General
89.Orders and regulations made by Ministers of Crown
90.Minor definitions
91.Minor and consequential amendments
92.Financial provisions
93.Short title, commencement and extent
Schedule 1
Transfer schemes
Schedule 2
Taxation provisions relating to re-structuring etc
Schedule 3
Further provision about access conditions
Part 1 Provision that may be made by access conditions
Part 2 Resolution of access disputes by OFCOM
Schedule 4
Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM
Schedule 5
Approval of redress schemes
Schedule 6
Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
Schedule 7
Enforcement of regulatory requirements
Schedule 8
Information provisions
Part 1 Requirements to provide information to OFCOM
Part 2 Enforcement
Part 3 Supplementary provisions
Schedule 9
Transitional provisions for Part 3
Schedule 10
Conduct of postal administration
Part 1 Modifications of Schedule B1 to 1986 Act
Part 2 Further modifications of Schedule B1 to 1986 Act: foreign companies
Part 3 Other modifications
Schedule 11
Postal transfer schemes
Schedule 12
Minor and consequential amendments
Part 1 Postal Services Act 2000
Part 2 Communications Act 2003
Part 3 Other enactments