{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-87.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/87",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Use of websites by postal administrator",
  "text": "(1) This Rule applies for the purposes of section 246B of the 1986 Act (use of websites).\n(2) A postal administrator required to give, deliver or send a document to any person may (other than in a case where personal service is required) satisfy that requirement by sending that person a notice—\n(a) stating that the document is available for viewing and downloading on a website;\n(b) specifying the address of that website together with any password necessary to view and download the document from that site; and\n(c) containing a statement that the person to whom the notice is given, delivered or sent may request a hard copy of the document and specifying a telephone number, e-mail address and postal address which may be used to request a hard copy.\n(3) Where a notice to which this Rule applies is sent, the document to which it relates must—\n(a) be available on the website for a period of not less than 3 months after the date on which the notice is sent; and\n(b) must be in such a format as to enable it to be downloaded from the website within a reasonable time of an electronic request being made for it to be downloaded.\n(4) Where a hard copy of the document is requested it must be sent within 5 business days of the receipt of the request by the postal administrator, who may not make a charge for sending it in that form.\n(5) Where a document is given, delivered or sent to a person by means of a website in accordance with this Rule, it is deemed to have been delivered—\n(a) when the document was first made available on the website; or\n(b) if later, when the notice under paragraph (2) was delivered to that person.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 87 in force at 1.10.2016, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 246B was inserted by S.I. 2010/18, Article 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/900/article/87",
    "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."
}