{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/878",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provisions",
  "text": "Section 28 of the 1953 Act (retention of postal packets after delivery of part thereof to Post Office) shall apply to a postal packet which was within the exclusive privilege of the Post Office before 26th March 2001 and was on board a ship or aircraft inward bound before 26th March 2001 and the second and third references in section 28 to the Post Office shall include a reference to the successor postal services company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 28 of the 1953 Act was amended by the provisions of the 1969, 1977 and 1982 Acts referred to in the footnote to section 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/878/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:56:51.962830+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."
}