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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-consequential-modifications-no-1-order-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1149",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-consequential-modifications-no-1-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Civil Defence Act 1939",
  "text": "After section 90(2) of the Civil Defence Act 1939 is inserted—\n“(3) For the purposes of this Act—\n(a) a universal service provider (within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000) in connection with the provision of a universal postal service (within the meaning of that Act) shall be taken to be a public utility undertaker; and\n(b) his undertaking so far as relating to the provision of a universal postal service shall be taken to be a public utility undertaking.\n(4) For the purposes of this Act as it applies by virtue of subsection (3) above in relation to a universal service provider the appropriate department is the Secretary of State.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14 in force at 26.3.2001, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1939 c. 31. Section 90 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 16 and Schedule 18 to, the Electricity Act 1989, Part I of Schedule 9 to the Gas Act 1986, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1149/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:32.510424+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."
}