{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Forgery and stealing of money orders.",
  "text": "(1) A money order shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning . . . of the Forgery Act 1913 . . . andof any otherenactment relating to forgery orstealing which is for the time being in force in any part of the British postal area.\n(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 a misdemeanour and be liable to the like punishment as if the order were a cheque.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. III and Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 23(2) repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1913 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:39.685380+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}