Section 22 Issuing money orders with fraudulent intent.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

If any F1person engaged in the business of the Post Office grants or issues any money order with a fraudulent intent, he shall be guilty of F2a misdemeanour and be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

(2)

If any person 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.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)
F2: Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2

Modifications

C1: S.22 extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(9)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)