• Accessibility
• Email alerts
• RSS feeds
• Contact us

House of Lords

Session 2008 - 09 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament

Postal Services Bill [HL]

Postal Services Bill [HL]
[AS AMENDED ON REPORT]
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
Supplementary provisions
14    Annual report on post office network
15    Directions
16    Interpretation of Part 1
HL Bill 44                                                                                               54/4
Postal Services Bill [HL] ii
Part 2
Royal Mail Pension Plan
Introduction
17    Introduction
Powers exercisable
18    Transfer of qualifying accrued rights to new public scheme
19    Division of the RMPP into different sections
20    Amendments of the RMPP
21    Protection against adverse treatment
22    Transfer of assets of the RMPP
23    Restriction on power to transfer assets
Supplementary provisions
24    Taxation
25    Information
26    Orders and regulations
27    Interpretation of Part 2
Part 3
Regulation of postal services
Postal services
28    Postal services, postal packets and postal operators
29    General authorisation to provide postal services
The universal postal service
30    Duty to secure provision of universal postal service
31    The universal postal service
32    Definitions for purposes of section 31
Universal service provider
33    Designation of universal service provider
34    Designated USP condition
35    Publication of information about performance
36    USP access conditions
37    USP accounting conditions
Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service
38    Services within scope of the universal postal service
39    General universal service conditions
40    Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM
Postal Services Bill [HL] iii
Financial support for universal service
41    Review of costs of universal service obligations
42    Sharing of burden of universal service obligations
43    Report on sharing mechanism
Postal operators generally
44    Notification by postal operators
45    Essential conditions
46    General access conditions
47    Consumer protection conditions
48    Provision that may be made by consumer protection conditions
General provisions
49    Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
50    Appeals against price control decisions
51    Appeals under section 50: supplementary
52    Enforcement of regulatory requirements
53    Information
54    General restriction on disclosure of information
Supplementary and consequential provisions
55    Duties in relation to social and environmental matters
56    Orders, schemes and regulations made by OFCOM
57    Abolition of Postal Services Commission etc
58    Interpretation of Part 3
59    Transitional provisions for Part 3
Part 4
General
60    Orders and regulations made by the Secretary of State or the Treasury
61    Meaning of “enactment”
62    Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
63    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
Postal Services Bill [HL] iv
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

• A-Z index
• Glossary
• Contact us
• Freedom of Information
• Jobs
• Using this website
• Copyright