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(1)A money order shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning . . . F1[F2of the M1Forgery Act 1913 . . . F3 and]of any [F2other]enactment relating to [F2forgery or]stealing which is for the time being in force in any part of the British postal area.
[F4(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 [F5a misdemeanour] and be liable to the like punishment as if the order were a cheque.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2
F2Words repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I
F3Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. III and Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. II
F4S. 23(2) repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I
F5Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2
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C1S. 23 extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(9)
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F6Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)
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