1Recorded delivery service to be an alternative to registered post.N.I.

(1)Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or other thing to be sent by registered post (whether or not it makes any other provision in relation thereto) shall have effect as if it required or, as the case may be, authorised that thing to be sent by registered post or the recorded delivery service; and any enactment which makes any other provision in relation to the sending of a document or other thing by registered post or to a thing so sent shall have effect as if it made the like provision in relation to the sending of that thing by the recorded delivery service or, as the case may be, to a thing sent by that service.

(2)The Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of making consequential adaptations of the enactments therein mentioned.

(3)The Governor may by Order in Council make such amendments of any enactment contained in a local or private Act (being an enactment to which this section applies) as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of sub-section (1).

(4)The Governor shall not be recommended to make an Order in Council under sub-section (3) until a draft thereof has been subject to negative resolution.

(5)F1 This section shall not be construed as authorising the sending by the recorded delivery service of anything which[F2 by virtue of the Postal Services Act 2000 on the terms and conditions of the service concerned]F2 is not allowed to be sent by that service.