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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011/section-78.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/5",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011",
  "path": "section/78",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Enforcement of security",
  "text": "(1) A person may not take any step to enforce a security over property of a company which is a universal service provider unless—\n(a) notice of the intention to do so has been served on the Secretary of State and OFCOM, and\n(b) a period of at least 14 days has elapsed since the service of the last of those notices to be served.\n(2) In the case of a foreign company which is a universal service provider, the reference to the property of the company is to its property in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 78 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/78",
    "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."
  }
}