Post Office Act 1969

SCHEDULE 4 Adaptations of Enactments and Orders in Council consequential on the Assumption by the new Authority for the Conduct of postal and telegraphic Business of Functions exercised and performed before the appointed Day by the Postmaster General

Sections 76, 88, 139. Part I Interpretation 1 In this Schedule “the authority” means the authority established by section 6 of this Act. Part II Adaptations of public general Enactments Adaptations of Enactments relating to the Post 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adaptations of Enactments relating to Telegraphs 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adaptations of Enactments relating to the Supply of Electricity 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 As from the appointed day, references to a private generating station in section 11 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (restrictions on the establishment of new generating stations) shall be construed as including references to a generating station (within the meaning of that Act) for the generation of electricity for use wholly or mainly for the purposes of the authority’s undertaking. 12, 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adaptations of other Enactments 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16—19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 40. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 As from the appointed day, the reference to the Post Office in section 12(3)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (evidence by certificate) shall be construed as including a reference to the authority. 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 (1) Where any work proposed to be done on or after the appointed day by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in pursuance of a clearance or demolition order or a re-development scheme made by them under the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 involves, or is likely to involve, an alteration in a telegraphic line belonging to, or used by, the authority, paragraphs (1) to (8) of section 7 of the Telegraph Act 1878 shall apply to the alteration and accordingly shall have effect, subject to any necessary modifications, as if references therein to undertakers included references to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. (2) Where, in pursuance of an order under section 22 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, section 14 of the Housing Act (Northern Ireland) 1961, Article 51 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 or section 25 of the New Towns Act (Northern Ireland) 1965, that comes into operation on or after the appointed day, a public right of way over land is extinguished and, immediately before the day on which the order comes into operation, there is under, in, on, over, along or across the land a telegraphic line of the authority’s, the authority shall have the same powers in respect of the line as if the order had not come into operation; but, if a person entitled to land over which the right of way subsisted requires that the line should be altered, paragraphs (1) to (8) of the said section 7 shall apply to the alteration and accordingly shall have effect, subject to any necessary modifications, as if references therein to undertakers included references to the person by whom the alteration is required. (3) In this paragraph “telegraphic line” and “alteration” have the same meanings as in the Telegraph Act 1878. 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62—64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 As from the appointed day, section 7(1) of the Payment of Wages Act 1960 (interpretation) shall have effect as if, for the definitions of “money order” and “postal order”, there were substituted the following definitions:— “money order” means a money order issued by the Postmaster General or the Post Office and “postal order” means a postal order so issued . 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 As from the appointed day, the references to the Postmaster General in section 53 of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (transmission of election addresses) shall be construed as referring to the authority. 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 As from the appointed day, the reference in section 1(4) of the Criminal Evidence Act 1965 to the Post Office shall be construed as including a reference to the authority. 78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 As from the appointed day, the Schedule to the Building Control Act 1966 (which specifies bodies in the case of which work carried out by them is exempt from control under that Act) shall have effect as if, at the end thereof, there were added a reference to the authority. 81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 As from the appointed day, the authority shall be deemed to be a public utility undertaking for the purposes of section 1 of the Local Government and Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1968. 91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 (1) A universal service provider ... in connection with the provision of a universal postal service ... shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking so far as relating to the provision of a universal postal service a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely,— (i)–(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (v) the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947; (vi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (vii) section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948; (viii) the Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1948, as applied by any statutory provision passed or made before the commencement of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (ix) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (x) the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949; (xi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xii) the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954; (xiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xiv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xv) (xvi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xvii) section 11 of the Land Compensation Act 1961; (xviii) section 3(4) of the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961; (xix) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xx) the Pipe-lines Act 1962; (xxi) section 18 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963; (xxii) Schedules 3 to the Harbours Act 1964; (xxiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxiv) section 10(4) of the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1965; (xxv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxvi) . . . (xxvii) sections 11(5)(f), 54(6) and 75(4) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967; (xxviii) the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968; (xxix) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxx) section 22 of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968; (xxxi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxxii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxxiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxxiv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (xxxv) Section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990. . . .. (2) In the following enactments, namely,— (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947; (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (h),(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (j) the Pipe-lines Act 1962; (k) Schedules 3 to the Harbours Act 1964; (l)–(p) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (q) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (r) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (s), (t) “the appropriate Minister” shall, in relation to a universal service provider ... , mean the Minister. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In the following enactments, namely,— (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (d) section 13 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962; (e) the New Towns Act 1981 (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (g) the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968; (h) (i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (j) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (k) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “operational land” shall, in relation to a universal service provider ... , mean land of his of any such class as may be specified in regulations made jointly by the Minister and the Minister of Housing and Local Government by statutory instrument (which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament); and— (i) the definition of a class of land for the purposes of regulations made under this sub-paragraph may be framed by reference to any circumstances whatsoever; and (ii) if any question arises whether land of a universal service provider’s falls within a class specified in regulations so made, it shall be determined by the Minister. In the application of this sub-paragraph to Scotland, for the reference to the Minister of Housing and Local Government there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State. (4A) In this paragraph “universal service provider” and “universal postal service” have the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011. (5) This paragraph shall come into operation on the appointed day. 94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part III Adaptations of local Enactments 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 (1) Nothing in— (a) the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939 or byelaws thereunder; or (b) a special enactment passed or made before the appointed day (including such an enactment relating to Scotland or Northern Ireland) for purposes similar to those of an enactment contained in Part V or VII of the Highways Act 1959 (except sections 136 to 138); shall affect any powers of the authority under the enactments relating to telegraphs or apply to any telegraphic lines placed or maintained by the Postmaster General or the authority by virtue of those enactments. (2) In this paragraph, “special enactment” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1959. 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101, 102. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part IV Adaptation of Orders in Council 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .