{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-200A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-200A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "section/200A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "200A",
  "heading": "Remuneration for free postal services provided under Act.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where any postal services are provided without charge by a universal postal service provider in pursuance of this Act.\n(2) The universal postal service provider shall be entitled to be remunerated for having provided the services at the rate fixed in relation to them by virtue of a scheme under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000.\n(3) A sum which a universal postal service provider is entitled to receive by virtue of this section shall be charged on, and issued out of, the Consolidated Fund.\n(4) In this section “postal services” has the meaning given by section 27 of the Postal Services Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) substituted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and 16.2.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8(a), Sch. 1 para. 10; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 200A inserted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch 8, Pt. II, para. 18; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(3), Sch. 3 (as amended by S.I. 2001/1148, arts. 2, 43(2), Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 200A(1)-(3) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 119(a); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 200A(4) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 119(b); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 200A applied (with modifications) (1.8.2001) by The Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2599), art. 3, Sch. 1 (as substituted (10.2.2009) by S.I. 2009/256, arts. 1(2), 3, Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 200A applied (16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 41, s. 110, Sch. 12 para. 1(3)(5) (with s. 156(6)); S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 1 Pt. II)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 200A modified by Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), Sch. 12 para. 1(3) (as applied (13.2.2013) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 5) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/242), arts. 2, 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 200A(2) modified (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1148, art. 36"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/200A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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."
}