Commentary on Sections Persons providing services within scope of universal postal service Section 41: Notification condition
205.This section provides that OFCOM may impose a notification condition on any person providing or intending to provide a service within the scope of the universal postal service. A notification condition requires the person to give OFCOM advance notice of their intention to provide a letters business on a specified scale, or to expand the business by a specified extent.
206.Subsection (4) enables the Secretary of State to direct OFCOM to impose a notification condition.