Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Adaptations of Enactments and Orders in Council consequential on the Assumption by the new Authority for the Conduct of postal and telegraphic Business of Functions exercised and performed before the appointed Day by the Postmaster General

PART II Adaptations of public general Enactments

Adaptations of other Enactments

47 (1) As from the appointed day, references to the Postmaster General in section 79 of the [1949 c. 68.] Representation of the People Act 1949 (candidate's right to send election address post free) shall be construed as referring to the authority.

(2) Section 162 of the Representation of the People Act 1949 (service of notices, &c.) shall, as regards a summons, notice or document sent by post on or after the appointed day, have effect as if, in subsection (2), for the reference to the post office, there were substituted a reference to the authority.