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Postal Services Act 2011

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Suspending service provision for contravention of information requirements

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9(1)Unless it provides otherwise, a direction under paragraph 8 takes effect for an indefinite period beginning with the time at which it is notified to the person to whom it is given.

(2)A direction under paragraph 8—

(a)in providing for the effect of a suspension or restriction to be postponed, may provide for it to take effect only at a time determined by or in accordance with the terms of the direction, and

(b)in connection with the suspension or restriction contained in the direction or with the postponement of its effect, may impose such conditions on the contravening person as appear to OFCOM to be appropriate for the purpose of protecting the users of that operator’s services.

(3)Those conditions may include a condition requiring the making of payments—

(a)by way of compensation for loss or damage suffered by those users as a result of the direction, or

(b)in respect of annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to which those users have been put in consequence of the direction.

(4)OFCOM may revoke a direction under paragraph 8 or modify its conditions—

(a)with effect from such time as they may direct,

(b)subject to compliance with such requirements as they may specify, and

(c)to such extent and in relation to such services, or parts of a service, as they may determine.

(5)For the purposes of paragraph 8 there are repeated contraventions by a person of requirements imposed under paragraph 1 or 3 to the extent that—

(a)in the case of a previous notification given to that person under paragraph 5, OFCOM have determined for the purposes of paragraph 7(2) that a contravention did occur, and

(b)in the period of 12 months following the day of the making of that determination, one or more further notifications have been given to that person in respect of contraventions of a requirement imposed under paragraph 1 or 3.

(6)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) it does not matter whether the notifications relate to the same contravention or to different contraventions of the same or different requirements or of requirements under different paragraphs.

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