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The Postal Services Act 2011 (Specified Day) Order 2012

S.I. 2012/966 · Made 27 March 2012

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Postal Services

Made 27th March 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 25 of the Postal Services Act 2011f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2011 c.5.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Citation and commencement
  3. 3Citation and commencement
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Postal Services Act 2011 (Specified Day) Order 2012.

2Citation and commencement

The day specified for the provisions listed in article 3 to come into force is 1st April 2012.

3Citation and commencement

The provisions are—

(a)

articles 2 to 12 of the Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012f1; and

(b)

articles 1(3) and 2 to 9 of the Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Assets) Order 2012f2.

Signature

Norman Lamb

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

27th March 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 25 of the Postal Services Act 2011 (c.5) provides that the Secretary of State may specify by Order a day on which other Orders made under Part 2 of that Act will come into force.

Two Orders, the Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/687) and the Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Assets) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/688) were laid before Parliament on 9th March 2012. This Order provides that the operative provisions of those Orders will come into force on 1st April 2012.