{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/936",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services (Universal Postal Service) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "The universal postal service",
  "text": "(1) The universal postal service shall comprise—\n(a) the delivery services described in article 6;\n(b) the collection services described in article 7;\n(c) the services described in Schedule 1 (“end-to-end services at affordable prices”);\n(d) the services described in Schedule 2 (“free end-to-end services”); and\n(e) the services described in Schedule 3 (“addressee services”).\n(2) It is a characteristic of the universal postal service that its component services are available for all postal packets which meet the ... requirements (if any) set out in this Order for the provision of the service in question.\n(3) Nothing in this Order requires the doing of anything in relation to a postal packet of a type falling within section 33(1)(a) or (b) Postal Services Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 5(2) omitted (31.12.2013) by virtue of The Postal Services (Universal Postal Service) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3108), arts. 1, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 5(3) inserted (31.12.2013) by The Postal Services (Universal Postal Service) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3108), arts. 1, 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.4.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/936/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:28.959238+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."
}