{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1908/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1908/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/48",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1908",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Evidence of thing being postal packet",
  "text": "On the prosecution of any offence under this Act, whether on summary conviction or on indictment, evidence that any article is in the course of transmission by post, or has been accepted on behalf of the Postmaster-General for transmission by post, shall be sufficient evidence that the article is a postal packet.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/48/section/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:11.523677+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}