SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4U.K. 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

Part IIU.K. Adaptations of public general Enactments

Adaptations of other EnactmentsU.K.

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16—19.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

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24U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

25U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

26U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

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28, 29.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12

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31U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14

32U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15

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37U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F20

38U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F21

39, 40.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F22

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42U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24

43U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25

44U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F26

45U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F27

46U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28

47U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29

48U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F30

49U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F31

50U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F32

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52U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F34

53U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F35

F3654U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

55U.K.As from the appointed day, the reference to the Post Office in section 12(3)(b) of the M1Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (evidence by certificate) shall be construed as including a reference to the authority.

F3756U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

57U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F38

58U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F39

59(1)Where any work proposed to be done on or after the appointed day by [F40the Northern Ireland Housing Executive] in pursuance of a clearance or demolition order or a re-development scheme made by them under [F41the M2Housing (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 M3Telegraph 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 [F40the Northern Ireland Housing Executive].U.K.

(2)Where, in pursuance of an order under section 22 of the Housing of the M4Working Classes Act 1890, section 14 of the M5Housing Act (Northern Ireland) 1961, [F42Article 51 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981] or section 25 of the M6New 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 F43“telegraphic line” and “alteration” have the same meanings as in the M7Telegraph Act 1878.

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61U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F45

62—64.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F46

65U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F47

66U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F48

[F4967U.K.As from the appointed day, section 7(1) of the M8Payment 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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69U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F51

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72U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F54

73U.K.As from the appointed day, the references to the Postmaster General in section 53 of the M9Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (transmission of election addresses) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

74U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F55

75U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F56

76U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F57

[F5877U.K.As from the appointed day, the reference in section 1(4) of the M10Criminal Evidence Act 1965 to the Post Office shall be construed as including a reference to the authority.]

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79U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F60

[F6180U.K.As from the appointed day, the Schedule to the M11Building 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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86U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F67

87U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F68

88U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F69

89U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F70

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 M12Local Government and Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.

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93(1)[F73A universal service provider F74... in connection with the provision of a universal postal service F75...] shall be deemed to be [F76a statutory undertaker] and [F77his undertaking so far as relating to the provision of a universal postal service] a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely,—U.K.

(i)–(iv)F78. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(v)the M13Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;

(vi)F79. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(vii)section 4 of the M14Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;

[F80(viii)the M15Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1948, as applied by any statutory provision passed or made before the commencement of the M16Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980]

(ix)F81. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(x)the National Parks and Access to the M17Countryside Act 1949;

F82(xi). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xii)the M18Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

(xiii)F83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F84(xiv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xv ) (xvi)F85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xvii)section 11 of the M19Land Compensation Act 1961;

(xviii)section 3(4) of the M20Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;

(xix)F86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xx)the M21Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(xxi)section 18 of the M22Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963;

(xxii)Schedules 3 F87 to the M23Harbours Act 1964;

F88(xxiii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

F89(xxv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxvi)F90. . .

(xxvii)sections 11(5)(f), 54(6) and 75(4) of, and Schedule 3 to, the M24Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

(xxviii)the M25New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxix)F91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxx)section 22 of the M26Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxxi )F92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxxii )F93. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxxiii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F94

F95(xxxiv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F96(xxxv)Section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.]

F97. . ..

(2)In the following enactments, namely,—

(a )F98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b )F99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)the M27Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;

(d )F100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e )F101. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(f )F102. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(g )F103. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(h ),(i)F104. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(j)the M28Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(k)Schedules 3 F87 to the M29Harbours Act 1964;

(l )–(p)F105. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(q )F106. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(r )F107. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(s), (t)

F108“the appropriate Minister” shall, in relation to [F109a universal service provider F74...] , mean the Minister.

F110(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)In the following enactments, namely,—

(a )F111. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b )F112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c )F113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)section 13 of the M30Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(e)the [F114New Towns Act 1981]

F115(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(g)the M31New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;

(h)

F113(i )F116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(j). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F117

F118(k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“operational land” shall, in relation to [F119a universal service provider F74...] , mean land of [F120his] 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 [F121a 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.

[F122(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.

94U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F123