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The Postal Services Regulations 1999

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Citation, purpose, interpretation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Postal Services Regulations 1999.

(2) These Regulations have effect for the purpose of implementing the Postal Services Directive.

(3) In these Regulations–

“the 1969 Act” means the Post Office Act 1969(1);

“the 1981 Act” means the British Telecommunications Act 1981(2);

“the Postal Services Directive” means Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for the development of the internal market of community postal services and the improvement of quality of service(3).

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), these Regulations shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

(5) Regulation 3, and so much of regulation 2 as relates to the Postal Services Commission, shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(3)

O.J. No. L15, 21.1.98, p. 14.

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