Public service law in the United Kingdom
- Public service law in the United Kingdom
Public service law in the United Kingdom is an emerging field of study which draws on elements of regulation and competition law and traditional public law.
Education
Health
* [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060041_en_1 NHS Act 2006]
Post
Telecommunications
*National Telephone Company, a monopoly nationalised in 1911
*British Telecommunications Act 1981, splitting telephony from the post office
*Telecommunications Act 1984, privatising British telecom and establishing a regulator
Broadcasting
Energy
Water
Rail
ee also
*UK competition law
*European Community regulation
*Economics of the public sector
*Universal service fund
Notes
References
*Tony Prosser, "The limits of competition law" (2004)
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