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(1)In section 7(1) of the [1969 c. 48.] Post Office Act 1969 (powers of the Post Office) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(bb)to provide, in such parts of post offices as are open to the public (whether for the transaction of postal business or otherwise), such services provided by means of telecommunication systems as it thinks fit;”.
(2)In section 29(1) of that Act (exclusion of liability of Post Office etc. in relation to telepost services) paragraph (c) shall be omitted.
(3)In section 86(1) of that Act (interpretation of Part III), for the definitions of " telecommunication system " and " telepost services " there shall be substituted the following definitions—
telecommunication system " has the meaning given by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Telecommunication! Act 1984 (read with subsection (2) of that section);
" telepost service " means a service whereby the Post Office does all or any of the following things, namely—
receives or collects in whatever form communications which are to be sent by means of a telecommunication system;
sends or receives by means of such a system communications which have been received or collected, or are to be delivered, by it in whatever form ; and
delivers in whatever form communications which have been sent by means of such a system.
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