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  Postal Services Bill - New Clause 4 - Restriction on universal service provider disposals
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to require providers of a universal postal service to report any intention to sell party of their business to the regulator Ofcom who would have to certify the sale does not in any way reduce the company's ability to deliver its universal service prior to the sale. 
  
  
  MPs were considering the Postal Services Bill[1]. The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Any company providing a universal postal service must, prior to selling any part of its business to another entity, first report its intention to Ofcom who must certify the sale does not in any way reduce the company's ability to deliver its universal service.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-12/postalservices.html Parliament's webpage on the Postal Services Bill (now the Postal Services Act)]
  
  
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