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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-universal-postal-service-order-2012/schedule-3/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/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Redirection services",
  "text": "(1) One or more services for addressees providing that during a specified reasonable period all postal packets ... that are to be delivered by a universal service provider to a particular addressee should be conveyed to a postal address other than that marked on the postal packet (“the redirection address”) within a reasonable period.\n(2) This service is not required—\n(a) where the redirection address is outside the United Kingdom and—\n(i) the postal packet contains registered items or insured items; or\n(ii) the postal packet exceeds 100 grams in weight, 240 millimetres in length, 165 millimetres in width or 25 millimetres in thickness;\n(b) in relation to postal packets to a particular addressee or from a particular sender or class of sender, where the provision of the service in relation to those postal packets would create a substantial risk of crime;\n(c) where the address marked on the postal packet or the redirection address relates to premises in relation to which it is reasonable not to provide the service; or\n(d) where the redirection address is a delivery office or a post office.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (31.12.2013) by virtue of The Postal Services (Universal Postal Service) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3108), arts. 1, 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (31.12.2013) by The Postal Services (Universal Postal Service) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3108), arts. 1, 19(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.4.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/936/schedule/3/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."
}