Post Office Act 1969

95 (1) Whereas the enactments specified in the two Lists below penalize the use of public telephone call boxes for the purpose of making false calls for police assistance, giving false alarms of fire, and the like, but are so framed that, unless amended, they will become of no effect on the appointed day:

Now, therefore, as respects any point of time after the beginning of the appointed day.—

(a) each of the enactments specified in List 1 shall have effect as if, for the reference therein to a call bor of the Post Office telephone service, there were substituted a reference to a call bor of the authority's telephone service; and

(b) each of the enactments specified in List 2 shall have effect as if, for the reference therein to the Postmaster General, there were substituted a reference to the authority.

• List 1

  • Section 127(2) of the [1934 c. lxxvi.] Tynemouth Corporation Act 1934.

  • Section 221(2) of the [1935 c. cxxv.] Sunderland Corporation Act 1935.

  • Section 106(2) of the [1936 c. cxi.] Wolverhampton Corporation Act 1936.

  • Section 83(2) of the [1937 c. lxxx.] Rotherham Corporation Act 1937.

  • Section 122(2) of the [1938 c. xl.] Wakefield Corporation Act 1938.

  • Section 176(2) of the [1938 c. liv.] Redcar Corporation Act 1938.

  • Section 167(2) of the [1938 c. lvi.] Swinton and Pendlebury Corporation Act 1938.

  • Section 211(2) of the [1938 c. lxiii.] Clacton Urban District Council Act 1938.

  • Section 89(2) of the [1939 c. lxv.] Tiverton Corporation Act 1939.

  • Section 137(2) of the [1939 c. lxxxii.] Walsall Corporation Act 1939.

  • Section 110(2) of the [1939 c. lxxxvii.] Macclesfield Corporation Act 1939.

  • Section 84(2) of the [1939 c. lxxxviii.] Coventry Corporation Act 1939.

  • Section 101(2) of the [1940 c. xxx.] Christchurch Corporation Act 1940.

  • Section 154(2) of the [1947 c. xlv.] Preston Corporation Act 1947.

  • Section 71(2) of the [1948 c. xxxviii.] Brighton Corporation Act 1948.

  • Section 173(2) of the [1948 c. xli.] Ipswich Corporation Act 1948.

  • Section 114(2) of the [1949 c. xxxvii.] Huddersfield Corporation Act 1949.

  • Section 86(2) of the [1949 c. xliv.] Bradford Corporation Act 1949.

  • Section 89(2) of the [1949 c. li.] Barnsley Corporation Act 1949.

• List 2

  • Section 178(2) of the [1951 c. xliv.] Worcester Corporation Act 1951.

  • Section 89(2) of the [1951 c. xlv.] Nottinghamshire County Council Act 1951.

  • Section 85(2) of the [1953 c. xli.] Berkshire County Council Act 1953.

  • Section 117(2) of the [1954 c. xlvii.] Birkenhead Corporation Act 1954.

  • Section 133(2) of the [1956 c. xxxi.] Monmouthshire County Council Act 1956.

  • Section 97(2) of the [1956 c. xl.] Gloucestershire County Council Act 1956.

  • Section 96(2) of the [1956 c. xlix.] Leicester Corporation Act 1956.

  • Section 26(2) of the [1956 c. lxxiii.] Huddersfield Corporation Act 1956.

  • Section 116(2) of the [1958 c. l.] Wallasey Corporation Act 1958.

  • Section 60(2) of the [1958 c. vi.] Kent County Council Act 1958.

  • Section 73(2) of the [1959 c. xli.] Bootle Corporation Act 1959.

  • Section 70(2) of the [1960 c. xliii.] Southampton Corporation Act 1960.

  • Section 41(2) of the [1960 c. xlix.] Hertfordshire County Council Act 1960.

  • Section 60(2) of the [1960 c. lii.] Oldham Corporation Act 1960.

  • Section 30(3) of the [1961 c. xlv.] Devon County Council Act 1961.

  • Section 10(2) of the [1962 c. xxvi.] Grimsby Corporation Act 1962.

  • Section 44(2) of the [1963 c. xxxvii.] Durham County Council Act 1963.

  • Section 28(2) of the [1964 c. xxxv.] Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation Act 1964.

  • Section 29(2) of the [1966 c. 15.] Exeter Corporation Act 1966.

(2) Any enactment contained in a local Act which is not specified in List 1 above but is similar to the enactments so specified shall, as respects any point of time after the beginning of the appointed day, have effect subject to the like amendment as is made by sub-paragraph (1)(a) above ; and any enactment contained in a local Act which is not specified in List 2 above but is similar to the enactments so specified shall, as respects any such point of time as aforesaid, have effect subject to the like amendment as is made by sub-paragraph (1)(b) above.