{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-69.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/69",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Hand-over of assets to successor postal administrator",
  "text": "(1) This Rule applies where a person appointed as postal administrator (“the succeeding postal administrator”) succeeds a previous postal administrator (“the former postal administrator”).\n(2) When the succeeding postal administrator’s appointment takes effect, the former postal administrator shall forthwith do all that is required for putting the succeeding postal administrator into possession of the company’s assets.\n(3) The former postal administrator shall give to the succeeding postal administrator all such information, relating to the affairs of the company and the course of the postal administration, as the succeeding postal administrator considers to be reasonably required for the effective discharge of the succeeding postal administrator’s duties as such and shall hand over all books, accounts, statements of affairs, statements of claim and other records and documents in the former postal administrator’s possession relating to the affairs of the company and its postal administration.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 69 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/69",
    "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."
}