{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-45.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Additional provisions as to conveyance of mail bags by tramways and public service vehicles.",
  "text": "(1) Where any . . . , in Great Britain, any public service vehicle is conveying or intended to convey passengers only and not goods or parcels, nothing in the last foregoing section shall authorise the Post Office to require mail bags to be conveyed therein either—\n(a) unaccompanied by a person engaged in the business of the Post Office travelling as a passenger; or\n(b) in excess of the maximum weight for the time being fixed for the luggage of ordinary passengers.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where . . . , in Great Britain, any public service vehicle is conveying or intended to convey both parcels and passengers but not goods, nothing in the last foregoing section shall authorise the Post Office to require mail bags to be carried therein in excess of the maximum weight for the time being fixed for ordinary parcels, or for the luggage of ordinary passengers, whichever is the greater.\n(4) Mail bags carried . . . in Great Britain, in a public service vehicle shall be so carried as not to inconvenience the passengers, so, however, that the custody of the mail bags by any person engaged in the business of the Post Office accompanying them shall not be interfered with.\n(5) Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section two of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 (which relates to the conveyance of mails by public service vehicles in Northern Ireland).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 137(1)(3), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 20(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 43, 44(3)–(5), 45(2) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 137(1)(3), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1930 c. 24 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/45",
    "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."
}