Singapore legislation

Clause 10

of Postal Services Bill

Clause 10

Residual power of Postal Authority to provide postal services

(1)

The Postal Authority may provide any postal service notwithstanding that it has granted a licence to any person under section 6 in any of the following circumstances:

(a)

if the Postal Authority is of the opinion that a person licensed under section 6 has failed to discharge or is not discharging to the Postal Authority’s satisfaction the obligations imposed by the Postal Authority on that person in the licence; or

(b)

to give effect to any direction of the Minister under section 45.

(2)

Where the Postal Authority undertakes the provision of postal services under subsection (1), sections 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18 to 23, 27 to 34, 36 to 38, 40 to 44, 57 and 58 shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to the Postal Authority in respect of the provision of such services and the references to public postal licensees in those sections shall be read as references to the Postal Authority.