{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-regulations-1986/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-regulations-1986/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Packets (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Dutiable goods shall not be brought by post into the United Kingdom from a place situated outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man for delivery in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man except:—\n(a) in a parcel, a letter packet, a small packet or a datapost packet; or\n(b) in a printed packet, provided that the goods are of such a description as to be transmissible in such a packet under paragraph 22 of the Post Office Overseas Letter Post Scheme 1982.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/260/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:54:18.008271+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."
}