{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-consequential-modifications-no-1-order-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-consequential-modifications-no-1-order-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-32.json",
  "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/32",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Civil Defence (Posts and Telecommunications) Regulations 1971",
  "text": "(1) The Civil Defence (Posts and Telecommunications) Regulations 1971 are amended as follows.\n(2) Regulation 2—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for the words ““the Post Office” has the meaning assigned to it in section 6 of the Post Office Act 1969” are substituted the words ““a universal service provider” has the same meaning as in the Postal Services Act 2000; and references to the provision of a universal postal service shall be construed in accordance with that Act”; and\n(b) after paragraph (1) is inserted—\n“(1A) In these regulations, except where the context otherwise requires, the undertaking of a universal service provider shall be taken to be his undertaking so far as it relates to the provision of a universal postal service.”.\n(3) In regulation 4—\n(a) for the words “the Post Office” are substituted the words “a universal service provider”;\n(b) for the words “requiring it” are substituted the words “requiring him”;\n(c) in paragraph (a) for the word “it” is substituted the word “he”;\n(d) in that paragraph for the word “its” is substituted the word “his”; and\n(e) in paragraph (b) for the word “it” is substituted the word “his”.\n(4) In regulation 5(1)—\n(a) for the words “the Post Office” are substituted the words “a universal service provider”; and\n(b) for the word “its” is substituted the word “his”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 32 in force at 26.3.2001, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/221."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1149/schedule/1/paragraph/32",
    "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."
}