Post Office

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC SCHEME IP2/2004

[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 1st June 2004, revises certain postal charges.

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC INLAND PARCEL POST (AMENDMENT NO 8) SCHEME 2004

Made   28th May 2004

Coming into operation     1st June 2004

Royal Mail Group plc(a) by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000(b) 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 1st June 2004 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 8) Scheme 2004.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001(c) (hereinafter called “the Scheme”), as amended by the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 1) Scheme 2001(d), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Posts (Amendment No. 2) Scheme 2001(e), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 3) Scheme 2002(f), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 4) Scheme 2002(g), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 5) Scheme 2003(h), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 6) Scheme 2003(i), the Royal Mail Group plc Parcel Post (Amendment No. 7) Scheme 2004(j)
3.	A reference in this Scheme to the Successor Postal Services Company shall be read as a reference to Royal Mail Group plc.

Schedule 1, Rates of Postage and Limits of Size and Weight

4.	Delete section (b) in column 1. (“Where Royal Mail Group plc allows transmission 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”)

Signed by Mark Sherborne

for and on behalf of Royal Mail Group plc

28th May 2004

(Footnotes)

(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) 2000 c26

(c)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)).

(d) Edinburgh Gazette 29/06/01, issue number 25040

(e) Edinburgh Gazette 06/07/01, issue number 25044

(f) Edinburgh Gazette 22/03/02, issue number 25188

(g) Edinburgh Gazette 28/06/02, issue number 25246

(h) Edinburgh Gazette 16/05/03, issue number 25427

(i) Edinburgh Gazette 05/12/03, issue number 25543

(j) Edinburgh Gazette 26/03/03, issue number 25603