{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/5",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Information",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 8 makes provision about the provision of information to OFCOM for the purpose of carrying out their functions in relation to postal services or for related purposes.\n(2) In that Schedule—\n(a) Part 1 makes provision authorising OFCOM to require information to be provided to them,\n(b) Part 2 makes provision for the enforcement of those requirements ..., and\n(c) Part 3 contains supplementary provision.\n(3) Nothing in Schedule 7 to the Postal Services Act 2000 (disclosure of information) prevents the Postal Services Commission from disclosing information to OFCOM for the purposes of OFCOM's functions in relation to postal services.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(1) substituted (23.11.2019) by The Cross-border Parcel Delivery Services (EU Information Requirements) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1429), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Cross-border Parcel Delivery Services (Amendment) (No.2) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1036), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 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/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:38.627296+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."
  }
}