{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-40.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/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "The Overseas Letter Post Scheme",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, the Post Office Overseas Letter Post Scheme 2001 (referred to in this article as “the Scheme”) shall continue in force on and after 26th March 2001 as if made by the successor postal services company under section 89 of the Act.\n(2) The Scheme may be cited as the Successor Postal Services Company Overseas Letter Post Scheme 2001.\n(3) Except as provided in the following paragraph, a reference in the Scheme to the Post Office shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the successor postal services company.\n(4) The following references in the Scheme to the Post Office shall be read as including a reference to the successor postal services company—\n(a) in paragraph 3(1), in the definitions of “Swiftpack”, “Swiftair plus Registered” and “Swiftair plus Recorded”, all references;\n(b) in paragraph 38(1), the second reference;\n(c) in paragraphs 17(3) and (5)(c), 19(2)(c), 33(5), 37(8), 38(3)(a) and (7), all references.\n(5) In paragraph 11(1) of the Scheme, the reference to section 11(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the 1953 Act shall be read as including a reference to section 85(1) to (4) of the Act.\n(6) In making the calculation under paragraph 11(5)(b) of the Scheme, the successor postal services company may take into account postal packets received by the Post Office before 26th March 2001.\n(7) In paragraphs 33(5), 37(8) and 38(7) of the Scheme, the reference to section 8(3) of the 1953 Act shall be read as including a reference to section 107(1) of the Act.\n(8) Anything agreed, approved, prescribed or specified for the purposes of the Scheme by the Post Office shall be treated as agreed, approved, prescribed or specified by the successor postal services company.\n(9) A reference in the Scheme to a scheme made under section 28 of the 1969 Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as including a reference to a scheme made, or treated by virtue of this Order as made, under section 89 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "London Gazette, 16/03/01, pages 3283–3297."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1148/article/40",
    "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."
}