Post Office Act 1969

81 Modification of enactments relating to wages councils

(1) There shall be excluded from the workers in relation to whom the Road Haulage Wages Council and any wages council established under Part I of the [1959 c. 69.] Wages Councils Act 1959 may operate any persons employed by the Post Office on road haulage work within the meaning of the [1938 c. 44.] Road Haulage Wages Act 1938 ; and there shall be excluded from the workers in relation to whom the Road Haulage Wages Council (Northern Ireland) and any wages council established under the [1945 c. 21 (N.I.).] Wages Councils Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 may operate any persons employed by the Post Office on road haulage work within the meaning of paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the [S.R. & O. 1952/193 (N.I.).] Road Haulage Wages Council (Northern Ireland) (Variation) Order 1952.

(2) Part II of the Road Haulage Wages Act 1938 (provisions with respect to the remuneration of workers employed by private carriers in connection with the mechanical transport of goods by road) shall not apply to work done by a person employed by the Post Office.

(3) For the purposes of any wages regulation order in force under Part II of the [1959 c. 69.] Wages Councils Act 1959 on the appointed day, vehicles which are being used by the Post Office by persons employed by it, being vehicles which are specified in licences, shall be deemed to be vehicles not specified in any licence, and so much of section 94(10) of the [1968 c. 73.] Transport Act 1968 as requires vehicles not specified in an A licence or a B licence to be treated as so specified if used wholly or mainly for a purpose for which, but for section 93 of that Act, an A licence or a B licence would be required shall not apply to vehicles that are being used by the Post Office by persons employed by it.