Postal
Services Act 2000 (Modification of Section 7) Order 2002 [S.I.2002/200]
Section 6 of the Postal Services Act 2000 prevents any person from conveying a
letter from one place to another unless that person holds a licence authorising
that conveyance or the person is acting as an employee or agent of a person so
authorised. Section 7 of the 2000 Act sets out exceptions to this, and section 8
of the Act gives the Secretary of State the power to modify section 7. The
Secretary of State may only modify section 7 where the Postal Services
Commission has recommended that this should happen.
Section
7(2)(d) of the 2000 Act as passed provided that a licence was not required for
the conveyance of an overseas letter out of the United Kingdom, but section 7
did not allow a person to make a collection of letters for that purpose.
The
Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) recommended that this restriction should
be removed. This Order achieved that effect by amending sections 7(2) and (3) of
the 2000 Act. Since 5 February 2002 a licence has therefore no longer been
required to do this.
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Services Act 2000 (Modification of Section 7) Order 2002 [S.I.2002/200]