Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)

21 Special provisions as to postal orders.F3 U.K.

(1), (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(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 [F2 or the authority established by section 6 of the M1 Post 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 18, 20, 21(1)(2)(4)(5) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II

F2 Words inserted by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(8)

Marginal Citations

M1 1969 c. 48.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F3 Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)