{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-disclosure-of-information-order-2012/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-disclosure-of-information-order-2012/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1128",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-disclosure-of-information-order-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescription of bodies and persons",
  "text": "Each of the following is a prescribed body or other person for the purposes of section 56(2)(d) of the Act—\nthe Bank of England;\nthe Civil Aviation Authority;\nthe Coal Authority;\nthe Competition and Markets Authority;\nthe Consumer Panel (as established under section 16(2) of the Communications Act 2003);\nany district council in Northern Ireland;\nthe Financial Conduct Authority;\nthe Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;\nthe General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland;\nthe Health and Safety Executive;\nthe Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;\nthe Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal;\nany local weights and measures authority in Great Britain;\nany Minister of the Crown;\n...\nthe National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux;\nthe Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation;\nany Northern Ireland department;\nany Northern Ireland Minister;\nthe Office for Nuclear Regulation;\n...\nthe Office of Rail and Road;\nany official receiver in England, Wales or Northern Ireland;\nthe Prudential Regulation Authority;\nthe Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux;\nany Scottish Minister;\nthe Treasury;\nthe Water Appeals Commission for Northern Ireland;\nthe Water Services Regulation Authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 inserted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 224(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 46(2)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 224(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 27(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 27(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 inserted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 205(2) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 46(2)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 substituted (16.10.2015) by The Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(ff) (as extended to U.K. (29.7.2016) by virtue of by S.I. 2016/645, reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 5 (with reg. 4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 20.4.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1128/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:15.129554+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."
}