Postal Services Act 2011 Explanatory Notes

Postal Services Act 2011

2011 CHAPTER 5

Commentary on Sections

Part 3: Regulation of postal services

Postal services

Section 27: Postal services, postal packets and postal operators

136. This section defines terms which are used in Part 3 of the Act: “postal services”, “postal packet” and “postal operator”.

137. Subsection (4) excludes from the definition of “postal operator” a person who only receives packets on behalf of another (either as agent or otherwise), and subsection (5) confers a power on the Secretary of State to prescribe by regulations circumstances in which that exclusion does not apply.

138. Subsection (6) provides that the regulations made by the Secretary of State under subsection (5) are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.