Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)

36 Alteration of regular mail train services.F2 U.K.

(1) Notwithstanding any agreement or award as to the remuneration to be paid by the [F1 Post Office] to any railway undertakers for any regular mail train services performed by them, the [F1 Post Office] may, by notice in writing—

(a) require the undertakers, as from the day specified in the notice (being not less than twenty-eight days from the service thereof), to render such additional services as may be specified therein; or

(b) direct that, as from the day specified in the notice, those services or such part thereof as may be so specified shall be discontinued.

(2) As from the day specified in any such notice, any agreement or award as to remuneration for the regular mail train services provided by the railway undertakers shall cease to have effect, and the remuneration to be paid for any such services performed on or after that day as increased or reduced by such a requirement or direction as aforesaid shall be such as may be fixed by a new agreement between the [F1 Post Office] and the undertakers or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Transport Tribunal:

Provided that the provision of any services as so increased or reduced shall not be suspended, postponed or deferred by reason only that the remuneration to be paid therefor has not been either agreed or determined as aforesaid.

(3) Where any dispute as to remuneration is referred to the Transport Tribunal under the last foregoing subsection, that tribunal may award any compensation they consider reasonable to be paid to the railway undertakers for any loss that may be occasioned to the undertakers by the alteration or discontinuance of the services previously performed by them by means of any train or vehicle specially required by the [F1 Post Office] to be forwarded for the conveyance of mail bags.

(4) Where the day specified in any notice given under this section for the discontinuance in whole or in part of any regular mail train services is less than six months from the service of the notice, then, if the services are directed to be discontinued without cause stated or for any stated cause other than the default of the undertakers in the performance of any of the services required of them by the [F1 Post Office] or the breach by the undertakers of any agreement with the [F1 Post Office], the [F1 Post Office] shall pay to the undertakers such full and fair compensation for all loss occasioned by the discontinuance as may be agreed between the [F1 Post Office] and the undertakers or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Transport Tribunal.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 20(2)(a)

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F2 Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878, art. 2, Sch. Table (subject to transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-17); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch. Table (subject to arts. 3-42)