Post Office Act 1969

Adaptations of other EnactmentsU.K.

14As from the appointed day section 11 of the M1Juries Act 1862 and section 22 of the M2Juries Act (Ireland) 1871 (summoning of jurors by post) shall each have effect as if, for the words from “under such regulations” to the words “the postmaster shall” there were substituted the words “the postmaster, upon receipt of the fee (if any) exigible for so doing, shall”.

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21(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4, as from the appointed day, any. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 office belonging to, or occupied by, the authority shall be a prohibited place for the purposes of that Act.

(2)Section 5 of the M3Official Secrets Act 1920 shall not apply to the authority; and, as from the appointed day, the reference in subsection (6) of that section to the Postmaster General shall be construed as referring to the authority.

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27The reference to the Postmaster General in section 79(3) of the M4Land Registration Act 1925 (return to the Chief Land Registrar of letters marked outside “Her Majesty’s Land Registry” and addressed to persons who cannot be found) shall, as from the appointed day, be construed as referring to the authority.

28, 29.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11

30U.K.As from the appointed day, section 2(2)(e) of the M5Execution of Diligence (Scotland) Act 1926 (execution of arrestment or charge by registered letter) shall have effect as if, for the words from “Postmaster” to “1908”, there were substituted the words “Post Office in pursuance of any provision contained in a scheme made under section 28 of the Post Office Act 1969”.

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32U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13

33(1)As from the appointed day, references to the Postmaster General in subsections (1) and (2) of section 2 of the M6Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 (conveyance of mails by public service vehicles) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

(2)As from the appointed day, references to an officer of the Post Office in the said subsection (1) shall be construed as referring to a person engaged in the business of the authority.

34U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14

35U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15

36(1)As from the appointed day, the authority shall be deemed to be public utility undertakers and its undertaking a public utility undertaking for the purposes of the provisions of the M7Civil Defence Act 1939, F16

(2)As from the appointed day, in the M8said Act of 1939 the expression “the appropriate department” shall, in relation to the authority, mean the Minister.

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41As from the appointed day, references to Post Office business in proviso (ii) to section 19 (Sunday employment) and in section 33 (application to Post Office business) of the M9Shops Act (Northern Ireland) 1946 shall be construed as referring to business of any of the kinds that the authority carry on.

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48U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F26

49U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F27

50U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28

51As from the appointed day, references to post office business in the following provisions of the M10Shops Act 1950, namely, section 22 (Sunday employment), section 44 (exemptions for post office business), Schedule 2 (transactions not affected by general closing hours or by closing orders) and Schedule 5 (transactions for the purposes of which a shop may be open in & England and Wales for the serving of customers on Sunday) shall be construed as referring to business of any of the kinds that the authority carry on.

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53U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F30

54As from the appointed day, references in section 6 of the M11Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 (supplementary provisions as to omnibus shelters, &c.) to the Postmaster General shall be construed as referring to the authority.

55U.K.As from the appointed day, the reference to the Post Office in section 12(3)(b) of the M12Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (evidence by certificate) shall be construed as including a reference to the authority.

56As from the appointed day, the reference to the Post Office in section 7(5) of the M13Juries Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (service of jurors’ summonses) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

57U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F31

58U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F32

59(1)Where any work proposed to be done on or after the appointed day by [F33the Northern Ireland Housing Executive] in pursuance of a clearance or demolition order or a re-development scheme made by them under [F34the M14Housing (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 M15Telegraph 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 [F33the Northern Ireland Housing Executive].U.K.

(2)Where, in pursuance of an order under section 22 of the Housing of the M16Working Classes Act 1890, section 14 of the M17Housing Act (Northern Ireland) 1961, [F35Article 51 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981] or section 25 of the M18New 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 F36“telegraphic line” and “alteration” have the same meanings as in the M19Telegraph Act 1878.

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62—64.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F39

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[F4267U.K.As from the appointed day, section 7(1) of the M20Payment 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”.]

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70U.K.As from the appointed day, Schedule 4 to the M21Public Health Act 1961 (which specifies, in relation to buildings of certain descriptions, the persons who are to be appropriate authorities for the purposes of the provisions of that Act relating to the attachment of street lights to buildings) shall have effect as if the following were added at the end thereof:—

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73U.K.As from the appointed day, the references to the Postmaster General in section 53 of the M22Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (transmission of election addresses) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

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[F5077U.K.As from the appointed day, the reference in section 1(4) of the M23Criminal Evidence Act 1965 to the Post Office shall be construed as including a reference to the authority.]

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[F5380U.K.As from the appointed day, the Schedule to the M24Building 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.]

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82As from the appointed day, Schedule 2 to the M25Industrial Development Act 1966 (which specifies bodies not eligible for certain grants under Part I of that Act) shall have effect as if the authority were included amongst the bodies therein specified and Schedule 1 to the M26Industrial Investment (General Assistance) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 shall have similar effect.

83(1), (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F55

(3)In the proviso to section [F56[F5733(4) of the M27Housing (Scotland) Act 1974]][F57paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 8 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987], the expression “apparatus” shall, in relation to the authority, be construed generally and shall not be limited by the definition thereof in section 208(1) of [F58the M28Housing (Scotland) Act 1966]

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F59

84As from the appointed day, paragraph 45(e) of Schedule 4 to the M29Land Commission Act 1967 shall have effect as if the reference to expenditure which has been or is to be met directly or indirectly by a government department did not include expenditure incurred by the Postmaster General in relation to land in the case of which an interest therein vests in the Post Office by virtue of section 16 of this Act.

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90U.K.As from the appointed day, the authority shall be deemed to be a public utility undertaking for the purposes of section 1 of the M30Local Government and Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.

91As from the appointed day, the reference to the Postmaster General in section 2(5) of the M31Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969 (which, amongst other things, empowers local authorities to make arrangements with him for him to issue licences and collect duty under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962 on their behalf) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

92(1)As from the appointed day, [F65section 212(1) of the M32Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972] shall, in relation to the authority, have effect with the substitution, for the reference to [F65section 211 of that Act], of a reference to paragraph 93(4) below.

(2)[F65The said section 212] shall not apply to land in the case of which an interest therein of the Postmaster General vests in the authority by virtue of section 16 of this Act.

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F66

93(1)The authority shall be deemed to be statutory undertakers and its undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely,—

(i)–(iv)F67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(v)the M33Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;

(vi)F68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(vii)section 4 of the M34Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;

[F69(viii)the M35Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1948, as applied by any statutory provision passed or made before the commencement of the M36Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980]

(ix)F70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(x)the National Parks and Access to the M37Countryside Act 1949;

(xi)the M38Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;

(xii)the M39Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

(xiii)F71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xiv)section 39(6)(b) of the M40Opencast Coal Act 1958;

(xv ) (xvi)F72. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xvii)section 11 of the M41Land Compensation Act 1961;

(xviii)section 3(4) of the M42Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;

(xix)F73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xx)the M43Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(xxi)section 18 of the M44Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963;

(xxii)Schedules 3 F74 to the M45Harbours Act 1964;

(xxiii)Schedule 6 to the M46Gas Act 1965;

[F75(xxiv)section 10(4) of the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1965;]

(xxv)the [F76New Towns Act 1981]

(xxvi)sections 14(2), 15(2), 35(3), 58 and 89(6) of the M47Land Commission Act 1967;

(xxvii)sections 11(5)(f), 54(6) and 75(4) of, and Schedule 3 to, the M48Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

(xxviii)the M49New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxix)F77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxx)section 22 of the M50Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxxi )F78. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxxii )F79. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxxiii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F80

[F81(xxxiv)sections 19, 37, 45, 46, 108(2), 117, 118, 119, 138, 154(3), 170, 171, 172, 175, 181, 195(6), 199(2), 202(3), 205, [F82205A] 212, 214 to 230, 233(7), 242 and 266(6)(b) of, and Schedules 8 and 9, paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 17, and Schedule 18 to, the M51Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972]

[F83(xxxv)Section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.]

[F84Subject to this exception, namely, that in relation to Scotland it shall not be so deemed for the purposes of section 271 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as applied by section 13 of the Opencast Coal Act 1958].

(2)In the following enactments, namely,—

(a )F85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b )F86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)the M52Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;

(d )F87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e )F88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(f )F89. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(g )F90. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(h ),(i)F91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(j)the M53Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(k)Schedules 3 F74 to the M54Harbours Act 1964;

(l )–(p)F92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(q )F93. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(r )F94. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(s), (t)

F95“the appropriate Minister” shall, in relation to the authority, mean the Minister.

(3)The M55Land Commission Act 1967 shall have effect as if, in subsection (3) of section 58 thereof in its application to the authority, for the words from “the Minister who” to the end of the subsection, and in subsection (6) of section 89 thereof, in its application to the authority, for the words from “the appropriate Minister” to the end of the subsection, there were substituted the words “the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications”.

(4)In the following enactments, namely,—

(a )F96. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b )F97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c )F98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)section 13 of the M56Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(e)the [F76New Towns Act 1981]

(f)section 58 of the M57Land Commission Act 1967;

(g)the M58New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;

(h)

F98(i )F99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(j). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F100

[F101(k)sections 138 (3), 154(3) and 214 to 230 of, a F99nd Schedule 8 to, the M59Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972];

“operational land” shall, in relation to the authority, mean land of its 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—act checked this far

(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 the authority’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.

(5)This paragraph shall come into operation on the appointed day.

94U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F102