{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Single piece service",
  "text": "“Single piece service” means a postal service for the conveyance of an individual postal packet to the addressee, for which the price per postal packet is not subject to any discounts related to—\n(a) the number of postal packets sent in connection with the person who paid for the service;\n(b) the positioning or formatting of text on the postal packet;\n(c) the use of markings which facilitate the use of machines to sort postal packets;\n(d) presortation into geographical areas for delivery; or\n(e) the purchase of any other conveyance of the same or any other postal packet.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 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/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}