83.Section 57(1) allows the Council to investigate any matter, not being a matter it has a duty to investigate under section 56 which appears to it to relate to the interests of users of relevant postal services (defined in section 51) or which relates to the number and location of public post offices.
84.Subsection (2) allows the Council to send reports on any matter investigated under subsection (1) to specified public bodies.
85.Subsection (3) allows the Council, subject to the requirements of subsection (5), to send reports on matters investigated to persons who the Council thinks might have an interest in these matters, or to publish a report in any manner the Council considers appropriate.
86.Subsections (4) and (5) require the Council, so far as practicable, to exclude from any report sent to any person or published under subsection (3), any matter which might seriously or prejudicially affect the interests of the person to whom it relates (unless that person consents).
Commentary on Sections Part III Other Functions of the Commission and the Council Section 57: Power of the Council to investigate other matters