Part 1 Restructuring of Royal Mail Group

Removal of existing statutory restrictions on ownership

• 1 Removal of restrictions on ownership of Royal Mail Holdings plc etc

Ownership of the Royal Mail

• 2 Report on decision to dispose of shares in a Royal Mail company etc
• 3 Employee share scheme

Ownership of the Post Office

• 4 Restrictions on issue and transfer of shares and share rights in a Post Office company etc
• 5 Report on transfer of interest in a Post Office company to a relevant mutual
• 6 Meaning of “Post Office company”
• 7 Meaning of “relevant mutual”

Transfer of property etc

• 8 Transfer schemes
• 9 Transfer of employees otherwise than under transfer scheme
• 10 Taxation provisions relating to re-structuring

Supplementary provisions

• 11 Annual report on post office network
• 12 Annual report on postal museum collection and archive
• 13 Directions

Interpretation

• 14 Ownership of companies
• 15 Part 1: general interpretation

Part 2 Royal Mail Pension Plan

Introduction

• 16 Introduction

Powers exercisable

• 17 Transfer of qualifying accrued rights to new public scheme
• 18 Division of the RMPP into different sections
• 19 Amendments of the RMPP
• 20 Protection against adverse treatment
• 21 Transfer of assets of the RMPP
• 22 Restriction on power to transfer assets

Supplementary provisions

• 23 Taxation
• 24 Information
• 25 Orders and regulations
• 26 Interpretation of Part 2

Part 3 Regulation of Postal Services

Postal services

• 27 Postal services, postal packets and postal operators
• 28 General authorisation to provide postal services

The universal postal service

• 29 Duty to secure provision of universal postal service
• 30 The universal postal service
• 31 Minimum requirements
• 32 Section 31: definitions
• 33 Exceptions to minimum requirements
• 34 Review of minimum requirements

Universal service providers

• 35 Designation of universal service providers
• 36 Designated USP conditions
• 37 Publication of information about performance
• 38 USP access conditions
• 39 USP accounting conditions

Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service

• 40 Services within scope of the universal postal service
• 41 Notification condition
• 42 General universal service conditions
• 43 Recovery of administrative charges incurred by OFCOM

Financial support for universal postal service

• 44 Review of costs of universal service obligations
• 45 Fairness of bearing burden of universal service obligations
• 46 Contributions for meeting burden
• 47 Report on sharing mechanism

Postal operators generally

• 48 Notification by postal operators
• 49 Essential conditions
• 50 General access conditions
• 51 Consumer protection conditions
• 52 Provision that may be made by consumer protection conditions

General provisions

• 53 Imposition, modification or revocation of regulatory conditions
• 54 Enforcement of regulatory requirements
• 55 Information
• 56 General restriction on disclosure of information

Appeals

• 57 Decisions by OFCOM to impose regulatory conditions, penalties etc
• 58 Appeals from the CAT
• 59 Price control decisions
• 60 Section 59: supplementary

Supplementary and consequential provisions

• 61 Duties in relation to social and environmental matters
• 62 UK postage stamps bearing image of Her Majesty
• 63 Orders, schemes and regulations made by OFCOM
• 64 Abolition of Postal Services Commission etc
• 65 Interpretation of Part 3 etc
• 66 Transitional provisions for Part 3
• 67 Review of Part 3

Part 4 Special Administration Regime

Postal administration orders

• 68 Postal administration orders
• 69 Objective of a postal administration
• 70 Applications for postal administration orders
• 71 Powers of court
• 72 Postal administrators
• 73 Conduct of administration, transfer schemes etc

Restrictions on other insolvency procedures

• 74 Winding-up orders
• 75 Voluntary winding up
• 76 Making of ordinary administration orders
• 77 Administrator appointments by creditors etc
• 78 Enforcement of security

Financial support for companies in administration

• 79 Grants and loans
• 80 Indemnities
• 81 Guarantees where postal administration order is made

Modifications of regulatory conditions etc

• 82 Regulatory powers exercisable during postal administration
• 83 Regulatory conditions to secure funding of postal administration order

Supplementary provisions

• 84 Modification of Part 4 under Enterprise Act 2002
• 85 Interpretation of Part 4
• 86 Partnerships
• 87 Northern Ireland
• 88 Review of Part 4

Part 5 General

• 89 Orders and regulations made by Ministers of Crown
• 90 Minor definitions
• 91 Minor and consequential amendments
• 92 Financial provisions
• 93 Short title, commencement and extent

• SCHEDULE 1 Transfer Schemes
• SCHEDULE 2 Taxation Provisions Relating to Re-structuring etc

SCHEDULE 3 Further Provision about Access Conditions

• Part 1 Provision that May be Made by Access Conditions
• Part 2 Resolution of Access Disputes by OFCOM

• SCHEDULE 4 Recovery of Administrative Charges Incurred by OFCOM
• SCHEDULE 5 Approval of Redress Schemes
• SCHEDULE 6 Imposition, Modification or Revocation of Regulatory Conditions
• SCHEDULE 7 Enforcement of Regulatory Requirements

SCHEDULE 8 Information Provisions

• Part 1 Requirements to Provide Information to OFCOM
• Part 2 Enforcement
• Part 3 Supplementary Provisions

• SCHEDULE 9 Transitional Provisions for Part 3

SCHEDULE 10 Conduct of Postal Administration

• Part 1 Modifications of Schedule B1 to 1986 Act
• Part 2 Further Modifications of Schedule B1 to 1986 Act: Foreign Companies
• Part 3 Other Modifications

• SCHEDULE 11 Postal Transfer Schemes

SCHEDULE 12 Minor and Consequential Amendments

• Part 1 Postal Services Act 2000
• Part 2 Communications Act 2003
• Part 3 Other Enactments