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PART IIThe Post Office

Miscellaneous

77Delivery boxes

For Paragraph (c) of section 87(2) (delivery of postal packets) of the [1953 c. 36.] Post Office Act 1953 (in this Act referred to as " the 1953 act) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

(c)the delivery of a postal packet—

(i)at the premises to which it is addressed or redirected, except they be a post office from which it is to be collected ;

(ii)to any box or receptacle to which the occupier of those premises has agreed that postal packets addressed to persons at those premises may be delivered ; or

(iii)to the addressee's servant or agent or to some other person considered to be authorised to receive the packet, shall be a delivery to the addressee.

78Interpretation and extent of Part II

(1)This Part shall be construed as one with Part III of the 1969 Act.

(2)This Part, except sections 59 and 63 to 70, shall extend to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.