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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/26",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may authorise a universal service provider to purchase compulsorily any land in England and Wales where it is necessary to do so for the purpose of providing a universal postal service.\n(2) The power of purchasing land compulsorily under this paragraph includes power to acquire, by creation of a new right, an easement or other right over land.\n(3) Any land in England and Wales vested in a universal service provider by virtue of this Schedule shall be deemed for all purposes to have been acquired by him for the purposes of his undertaking as a universal service provider.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(1) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 54(2); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:44.870444+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."
}