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Postal Services Act 2011

182.Subsections (1) and (2) describe the designated USP conditions that OFCOM may impose on a universal service provider designated under section 35. OFCOM may impose one or more of the following types of requirement on the designated universal service provider. The first, under sub-section (2)(a), is a requirement to provide a universal service or part of such a service, throughout or in a specified part of the UK, in accordance with the standards set out in the universal postal service order. The second is to provide, or make arrangements for the provision of, access points for the purposes of a universal postal service. The third is to provide, to other postal operators and postal services users, specified information about the services it is required to provide under subsection (2)(a). OFCOM may also impose a requirement to do anything else that they consider appropriate for the purposes of or in consequence of the preceding requirements.

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