{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-25.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Outward bound ships.",
  "text": "(1) Every master of a ship outward bound shall receive on board his ship every mail bag tendered to him by a person engaged in the business of the Post Office for conveyance, and having received it shall deliver it, on arriving at the port or place of his destination, without delay.\n(2) If the master of any such ship fails to comply with this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I.) by 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 25 applied (7.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/878, art. 6 (with art. 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/25",
    "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."
}