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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1148",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "The 2000 Act",
  "text": "Section 100 of the Act (exemption from postage etc) shall apply in respect of—\n(a) a petition or address forwarded to Her Majesty, or, in Northern Ireland, to the Secretary of State, by post;\n(b) a petition or address to Her Majesty sent by post to a member of either House of Parliament, a member of the Scottish Parliament, a member of the National Assembly for Wales, or a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly;\n(c) a petition addressed to either House of Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly sent by post to a member of either House of Parliament, a member of the Scottish Parliament or the Clerk of the Scottish Parliament, a member of the National Assembly for Wales, or a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (as the case may be);\n(d) a packet consisting of parliamentary proceedings,\nto which section 84 of the 1969 Act does not apply and which was delivered to a post office letter box before 26th March 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1148/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:33.173074+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."
}