{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "†Power to require services by tramways and certain public service vehicles.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of the next following section, the Post Office may by notice in writing require—\n(a) . . .\n(b) the British Railways Board and London Regional Transport in respect of any services of public service vehicles provided by them;\n(c) any local authority in Great Britain authorised to run public service vehicles under Part V of the Road Traffic Act 1930, in respect of services of such vehicles on any route authorised under the said Part V,\nto perform such reasonable services with regard to the conveyance of mail bags as the Post Office may from time to time direct.\n(2) The remuneration for any services performed in pursuance of this section shall be such as may be from time to time determined by agreement between the Post Office and the person performing the services or, in default of agreement, by the Transport Tribunal.\n3)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 20(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 44(1)(a) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 137(1)(3), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Transport (London) Act 1969 (c. 35). Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of London Regional Transport Act 1984 (c. 32, SIF 126), s. 67(2)(3), Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Ss. 43, 44(3)–(5), 45(2) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 137(1)(3), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1930 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:39.685380+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}