{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/900",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/54",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "New postal administrator appointed",
  "text": "(1) If a new postal administrator is appointed in place of another, the former postal administrator must as soon as reasonably practicable transmit to the new postal administrator all the creditors’ claims which the former postal administrator has received, together with an itemised list of them.\n(2) The new postal administrator must authenticate the list by way of receipt for the creditors’ claims, and return it to the former postal administrator.\n(3) From then on, all creditors’ claims must be sent to and retained by the new postal administrator.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 54 in force at 1.10.2016, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/900/article/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:15.032343+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."
}