Section 53 Unlawfully taking away or opening mail bag.C3C1C2
United Kingdom
If any person unlawfully takes away or opens a mail bag sent by any ship, vehicle or aircraft employed by or under the F1Post Office for the transmission of postal packets under contract, or unlawfully takes a postal packet in course of transmission by post out of a mail bag so sent, he shall F2be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
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. 4
Modifications
- C1
S. 53 amended by S.I. 1981/1675, (N.I. 26), Sch. 2 para. 8
- C2
S. 53 amended as to mode of trial by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), arts. 45(1), 46(3) (as substituted by S.I. 1986/1883 (N.I. 15), art. 3(2), Sch. 2
- C3
S. 53 amended as to mode of trial (E.W.) by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 17, Sch. 1 para. 22
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Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)