The Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001

Inland Letter Post Scheme

37.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, the Post Office Inland Letter Post Scheme 2000(1) (referred to in this article as “the Scheme”) shall continue in force on and after 26th March 2001 as if made by the successor postal services company under section 89 of the Act.

(2) The Scheme may be cited as the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001.

(3) Except as provided in the following paragraph, a reference in the Scheme to the Post Office shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the successor postal services company.

(4) The following references in the Scheme to the Post Office shall be read as including a reference to the successor postal services company—

(a) in sections 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 46.2.2, 46.3.3, 50.1.8, 50.1.9 and 50.2, all references;

(b) in Schedule II, in the definitions of “post”, “posted”, “postage”, “post box”, “postmark” and “private postbox”, all references; and

(c) in Schedule II, in the definition of “postage stamp or mark”, the first two references.

(5) In calculating the maximum periods referred to in section 27.2 of the Scheme, the successor postal services company may include the period during which the Post Office retained the letter in question before 26th March 2001.

(6) In sections 10.1.2, 13.3 and 19 of the Scheme, a reference to Parliament shall be read as including a reference to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(7) In making the calculation under section 43.2 of the Scheme, the successor postal services company may take into account letters received by the Post Office before 26th March 2001.

(8) In section 44.1 of the Scheme, the reference to section 16 of the 1953 Act shall be read as including a reference to section 105(1) and (2) of the Act (application of customs and excise enactments to certain postal packets).

(9) In section 50.1.9 of the Scheme, the reference to section 8(3) of the 1953 Act shall be read as including a reference to section 107(1) of the Act (conditions of transit of postal packets).

(10) Anything agreed, approved, prescribed or specified for the purposes of the Scheme by the Post Office shall be treated as agreed, approved, prescribed or specified by the successor postal services company.

(11) A reference in the Scheme to a scheme made under section 28 of the 1969 Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as including a reference to a scheme made, or treated by virtue of this Order as made, under section 89 of the Act.

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London Gazette, 20/04/00, pages 4503–4514.