{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-41.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/5",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Notification condition",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM may impose a notification condition on—\n(a) every person providing, or intending to provide, a service within the scope of the universal postal service, or\n(b) every person providing, or intending to provide, a service within the scope of the universal postal service of a specified description.\n(2) A notification condition is a condition requiring the person to give OFCOM—\n(a) advance notice of the person's intention to provide a letters business on a specified scale (whether or not the person is currently providing a letters business or any other postal service), and\n(b) where the person is already providing a letters business on a specified scale, advance notice of the person's intention to expand the business by a specified extent.\n(3) A specified scale or extent may be determined by reference to any specified factor.\n(4) The Secretary of State may at any time direct OFCOM to impose a notification condition.\n(5) The direction may (but need not) specify some or all of the provision to be contained in the condition.\n(6) Where a notification condition applies to a person at a time when the person is not providing a postal service—\n(a) Schedule 7 (enforcement of regulatory conditions) is to have effect as if paragraph 7(2) and (3) were omitted and as if, for the purposes of paragraph 11, the person were providing a postal service, and\n(b) Schedule 8 (information provisions) is to have effect as if the person were a person falling within paragraph 1(2) and as if, for the purposes of paragraph 8, the person were providing a postal service.\n(7) In this section—\n“advance notice” means written notice given at least a specified period of time before the person intends to do as mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b),\n“a letters business” means a postal service which consists in the delivery of letters, and\n“specified” means specified in the notification condition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 41 in force at 1.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/5/section/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:26.095245+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}