26.—(1) Sections 91 (limited liability for registered inland packets) and 92 (section 91: supplementary) of the Act shall apply in respect of an inland packet to which section 30 of the 1969 Act does not apply and which was delivered to a post office letter box before 26th March 2001.
(2) The successor postal services company shall be taken to have accepted liability for such a packet in pursuance of the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001 and the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001.
(3) The reference in section 91(2) of the Act to an officer, servant, employee, agent or sub-contractor of the universal service provider shall be read as including a reference to an officer, servant or agent of the Post Office.
(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (1) of articles 37 to 41 of this Order, a reference in sections 91 and 92 of the Act to a scheme made under section 89 of the Act shall include a reference to a scheme made under section 28 of the 1969 Act and a scheme treated, by virtue of this Order, as made under section 89 of the Act.