Article 1 Citation

This Order may be cited as the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001.

In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Postal Services Act 2000;

• “the 1953 Act” means the Post Office Act 1953^f1;

• “the 1969 Act” means the Post Office Act 1969^f2;

• “the 1981 Act” means the British Telecommunications Act 1981^f3;

• “the nominated company” means the company nominated^f4 by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 62 of the Act (transfer of property etc to nominated company);

• “the successor postal services company”, in relation to any postal services, means the company which carries on the business of providing those services which was formerly carried on by the Post Office.

In this Order, a postal packet is to be treated as posted before 26th March 2001 if it is delivered to a public post office before 26th March 2001, or it is delivered to a post office letter box before 26th March 2001, provided that it is delivered to that letter box before the last collection of postal packets from that letter box by a postal operator before 26th March 2001.