Clause 3

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsections:“(2A) Additionally, it is the function and duty of the Postal Authority —

to promote the efficiency and ensure the security and reliability of the public parcel locker network;

to ensure that public parcel lockers are reasonably accessible to all people in Singapore, and are supplied as efficiently and economically as practicable and at performance standards that reasonably meet the social, industrial and commercial needs of Singapore;

to exercise regulatory functions in respect of the public parcel locker network in Singapore; and

to exercise regulatory functions in respect of the determination and approval of prices, tariffs and charges in relation to, and the provision of, public parcel lockers.(2B) In discharging the functions and duties imposed on the Postal Authority by subsection (2A), the Postal Authority is to have regard to the following matters:

efficiency and economy;

the social, industrial and commercial needs of Singapore for public parcel lockers;

the provision of public parcel lockers at rates consistent with efficient service.”; and

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (4), and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(ba)precluding the Postal Authority from interrupting, suspending or restricting the installation or operation of any public parcel locker provided by the Postal Authority or a public parcel locker network operator; and”.