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Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F15Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878, art. 2, Sch. Table (subject to transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-17); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch. Table (subject to arts. 3-42)
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 18, 20, 21(1)(2)(4)(5) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II
(1), (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(3)Any person acting as a banker in the British postal area who, in collecting in that capacity for any principal, has received payment or been allowed by the Postmaster-General [F3or the authority established by section 6 of the M1Post Office Act 1969] in account in respect of any postal order, or of any document purporting to be a postal order, shall not incur liability to anyone except that principal by reason of having received the payment or allowance or having held or presented the order or document for payment; but this subsection shall not relieve any principal for whom any such order or document has been so held or presented of any liability in respect of his possession of the order or document or of the proceeds thereof.
(4), (5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 18, 20, 21(1)(2)(4)(5) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II
F3Words inserted by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(8)
Marginal Citations
(1)If any [F4person engaged in the business of the Post Office] grants or issues any money order with a fraudulent intent, he shall be guilty of [F5a misdemeanour] and be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
(2)If any [F4person engaged in the business of the Post Office] re-issues a money order previously paid, he shall be deemed to have issued the order with a fraudulent intent for the purposes of this section.
Textual Amendments
F4Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)
F5Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S.22 extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(9)
(1)A money order shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning . . . F6[F7of the M2Forgery Act 1913 . . . F8 and]of any [F7other]enactment relating to [F7forgery or]stealing which is for the time being in force in any part of the British postal area.
[F9(2)If any person with intent to defraud obliterates, adds to or alters any such lines or words on a money order as would, in the case of a cheque, be a crossing of that cheque, or knowingly offers, utters or disposes of any money order with such fraudulent obliteration, addition or alteration, he shall be guilty of [F10a misdemeanour] and be liable to the like punishment as if the order were a cheque.]
Textual Amendments
F6Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2
F7Words repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I
F8Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. III and Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. II
F9S. 23(2) repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I
F10Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 23 extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(9)
Marginal Citations
Where an arrangement is made with a government or postal administration of any other country for the transmission of small sums through post offices under the charge of the [F11Post Office] and the postal administration of the other country by means of [F11orders for the payment of money], the four last foregoing sections shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, . . . F12, apply in like manner as if an order issued in pursuance of the arrangement, whether by [F13a person engaged in the business of the Post Office] or by an officer of the other postal administration, were a money order . . . F12:
. . . F14
Textual Amendments
F11Words substituted by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(10)
F12Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(10)
F13Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)
F14S. 24 proviso repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(10), Sch. 9 para. 3(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3S. 24 extended by S.I. 1969/1368, art. 11 and 1973/960, art. 13
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