The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications to Local Enactments) Order 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/1542
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) This Order may be cited as the Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications to Local Enactments) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 10th July 2003.

(2) Any modification by this Order of an enactment has the same extent as the enactment modified.

Section 2 Modifications of Post Office Extension Act and Post Office Railway Acts

(1) Any provision of the Post Office Extension Act 1865 , the Post Office (London) Railway Act 1913 and the Post Office (Site and Railway) Act 1954 which was in force immediately before the day on which this Order comes into force and contained references to the Post Office shall (including references which have effect as such references), so far as necessary for preserving its effect on and after that day, have effect as if those references were references to the Post Office company.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), any function exercisable by the Post Office company by virtue of paragraph (1) shall be exercisable concurrently by any relevant subsidiary of the Post Office company; and references which have effect by virtue of paragraph (1) as references to the Post Office company shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Anything which by virtue of this paragraph must be done by or in relation to the Post Office company and any relevant subsidiary of the Post Office company shall, so far as the context permits, be taken as so done if it is done by or in relation to any of them.

(4) In the Acts to which this article applies references to the purpose or purposes of the Post Office shall be construed as references to the purpose or purposes of the businesses of the Post Office company and any relevant subsidiary so far as those businesses relate to the provision of postal services.

(5) In this article “the Post Office company” and “relevant subsidiary” have the same meanings as in Part IV of the Postal Services Act 2000.

Section 3 Other modifications of enactments

(1) The amendments specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall have effect.

(2) The repeals specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect.

Section 1 Nottingham Park Estate Act 1990

(1) In section 14 of the Nottingham Park Estate Act 1990 (stopping up of roads and traffic regulation) for the words “the Post Office” substitute the words “any relevant universal service provider”.

(2) After subsection (15) of that section insert—

(16) In this section “any relevant universal service provider” means a universal service provider (within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000) which provides a universal postal service (within the meaning of that Act) for the Park.

Section 2 Scottish Borders Council (Jim Clark Memorial Rally) Order Confirmation Act 1996

(1) The Scottish Borders Council (Jim Clark Memorial Rally) Order Confirmation Act 1996 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 2 (interpretation) at the appropriate place insert—

“universal service provider” has the meaning given by the Postal Services Act 2000; and

“the universal service provider concerned” means the universal service provider likely to be affected, in the provision of a universal postal service (within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000), by the closure of any public road under this Act.

(3) In section 12 (for protection of Post Office), for the words “the Post Office”, where they appear for the first time, substitute the words “a universal service provider” and, where they appear thereafter, substitute the words “the universal service provider concerned”.