Post Office

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC

Royal Mail Group Plc Scheme IP1/2003

[This Note is not part of the Scheme]

Note: The Scheme which follows this Note is made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 and amends the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001. The Scheme, which comes into force on 17th May 2003, revises certain postal charges.

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC INLAND PARCEL POST (AMENDMENT NO 5) SCHEME 2003

Made   8th May 2003

Coming into operation   17th May 2003

Royal Mail Group plc(a) by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

Commencement and citation

1.	This Scheme shall come into operation on 17th May 2003 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 5) Scheme 2003.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001(b) (hereinafter called “the Scheme”), as amended by the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 1) Scheme 2001(c), the Consignia Plc Inland Parcel Posts (Amendment No. 2) Scheme 2001(d), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 3) Scheme 2002(e) and the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 4) Scheme 2002(1).
3.	A reference in this Scheme to the Successor Postal Services Company shall be read as a reference to Royal Mail Group plc.

Rates of Postage

There shall be substituted the following for Schedule 1 to the Scheme:

“Schedule 1

Paragraphs 5 and 10

Rates of postage and limits of size and weight

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Description of	Rates of	Limits	Limits
postal packet	postage	of size	of weight

Parcels

(a) Weight not	Save as Royal	Not
exceeding 1kg	3.32	Mail Group plc	exceeding
may allow in (b)	20kg
Weight exceeding 1kg	4.27	Greatest length
but not exceeding 1.5kg	1.5m - Greatest
Weight exceeding 1.5kg	4.58	length and girth
but not exceeding 2kg	combined 3m
Weight exceeding 2kg	6.91	(the girth to be
but not exceeding 4k	measured around
Weight exceeding 4kg	7.54	the thickest part)
but not exceeding 6kg
Weight exceeding 6kg	8.59
but not exceeding 8kg
Weight exceeding 8kg	9.23
but not exceeding 10kg
Weight exceeding 10kg	10.76
but not exceeding 20kg
(b) Where Royal Mail
Group plc allows trans-
mission of a parcel which
exceeds the size limits
shown in paragraph (a),
such rate as Royal Mail
Group plc may fix, having
regard to the size”

  Compensation Fees

There shall be substituted the following for Schedule 4 Part I of the Scheme

Part I

Parcel Compensation fee and maximum compensation.

Column 1	Column 2
Compensation fee	Maximum
(in addition to postage)	compensation payable
£0.45	£100
£1.10	£250
£2.20	£500

(a) Royal Mail Group plc (a company registered in England and Wales under number 4138203) is a universal service provider as defined in section 4(3)(a) of the Postal Services Act 2000.

(b) The Post Office Inland Parcel Post Scheme 1989 was amended, renamed the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001 and treated as made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 by article 38 of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148 (C.37)).

(e) London Gazette 29/06/2001, issue number: 56259.

(d) London Gazette 06/07/2001, issue number: 56266.

(e) London Gazette 22/03/2002, issue number: 56516.

(f) London Gazette 28/06/2002, issue number: 56618.

Signed by Mark Sherborne

for and on behalf of Royal Mail Group plc

9th May 2003