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s 12Residual power of Authority to provide postal services

(1)

The Authority may provide any postal service notwithstanding that it has granted a postal licence to any person under section 8 in any of the following circumstances —

(a)

if the Authority is of the opinion that a person licensed under section 8 has failed to discharge or is not discharging to the Authority's satisfaction the obligations imposed by the Authority on that person in the postal licence; or

(b)

to give effect to any direction of the Minister under section 48.

(2)

Where the Authority undertakes the provision of postal services under subsection (1), sections 2, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 to 24, 28 to 35,

37 to 39, 41 to 45, 62 and 63 apply, with the necessary modifications, to the

Authority in respect of the provision of such services and the references to

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public postal licensees or postal licensees in those sections shall be read as references to the Authority.