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Postal Services Bill [HL]

Postal Services Bill [HL]
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Business, Enterprise
and Regulatory Reform, are published separately as Bill 100—EN.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Mr Gareth Thomas has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the
Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Postal Services Bill [HL] are compatible with the
Convention rights.
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Postal Services Bill [HL]
Contents
Part 1
Restructuring of Royal Mail group
Ownership of the Post Office
1    Post Office companies to be owned in their entirety by the Crown
2    Meaning of “Post Office company”
Ownership of the Royal Mail
3    Royal Mail companies to be publicly owned
4    Meaning of “Royal Mail company”
Securities
5    Power to direct issue of certain securities
6    Government investment in certain securities
Transfer of property etc
7    Transfer schemes
8    Transfer of employees otherwise than under transfer scheme
9    Taxation provisions relating to re-structuring
Ownership
10    Meaning of “owned in its entirety by the Crown” and “publicly owned”
11    Indirect ownership of companies
12    Ownership of a company
13    Employee share schemes
14    Report on agreement to dispose of shares in a Royal Mail company etc
Supplementary provisions
15    Annual report on post office network
16    Directions
17    Interpretation of Part 1
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Part 2
Royal Mail Pension Plan
Introduction
18    Introduction
Powers exercisable
19    Transfer of qualifying accrued rights to new public scheme
20    Division of the RMPP into different sections
21    Amendments of the RMPP
22    Protection against adverse treatment
23    Transfer of assets of the RMPP
24    Restriction on power to transfer assets
Supplementary provisions
25    Taxation
26    Information
27    Orders and regulations
28    Interpretation of Part 2
Part 3
Regulation of postal services
Postal services
29    Postal services, postal packets and postal operators
30    General authorisation to provide postal services
The universal postal service
31    Duty to secure provision of universal postal service
32    The universal postal service
33    Definitions for purposes of section 32
Universal service provider
34    Designation of universal service provider
35    Designated USP condition
36    Publication of information about performance
37    USP access conditions
38    USP accounting conditions
Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service
39    Services within scope of the universal postal service
40    General universal service conditions
41    Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM
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Financial support for universal service
42    Review of costs of universal service obligations
43    Sharing of burden of universal service obligations
44    Report on sharing mechanism
Postal operators generally
45    Notification by postal operators
46    Essential conditions
47    General access conditions
48    Consumer protection conditions
49    Provision that may be made by consumer protection conditions
General provisions
50    Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
51    Appeals against price control decisions
52    Appeals under section 51: supplementary
53    Enforcement of regulatory requirements
54    Information
55    General restriction on disclosure of information
Supplementary and consequential provisions
56    Duties in relation to social and environmental matters
57    Orders, schemes and regulations made by OFCOM
58    Abolition of Postal Services Commission etc
59    Interpretation of Part 3
60    Transitional provisions for Part 3
Part 4
General
61    Orders and regulations made by the Secretary of State or the Treasury
62    Meaning of “enactment”
63    Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
64    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
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Part 1   —
Requirements to provide information to OFCOM
Part 2   —
Enforcement
Part 3   —
Supplementary provisions
Schedule 9   —    Transitional provisions for Part 3
Schedule 10   —    Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
Part 1   —
Amendments of the Postal Services Act 2000 (c. 26)
Part 2   —
Amendments of the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)
Part 3   —
Amendments of other enactments
Part 4   —
General modifications
Part 5   —
Other repeals

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