Postal Services Act 2000

57 Power of the Council to investigate other matters

(1) The Council may investigate—

(a) any matter (not being a matter which it is under a duty to investigate under section 56) which it considers to be a matter relating to the interests of users of relevant postal services, and

(b) any matter relating to the number and location of public post offices.

(2) The Council may send a report on any matter investigated under this section to—

(a) the Commission,

(b) the Secretary of State,

(c) the Director General of Fair Trading, or

(d) any other public authority whose functions appear to the Council to be exercisable in relation to that matter.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Council may also—

(a) send a report on any such matter to any person who appears to the Council to have an interest in the matter, and

(b) publish any such report in such manner as the Council considers appropriate.

(4) So far as practicable the Council shall secure the exclusion from any report under subsection (3) of any matter relating to the affairs of a person if the Council considers that its inclusion would or might seriously and prejudicially affect the person’s interests.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply if the person concerned consents to inclusion of the matter in the report.