Section 54 Receiver of stolen mail bag or postal packet.C1X1
United Kingdom
If any person receives any mail bag, or any postal packet or any chattel or money or valuable security, the stealing . . . F1 or secreting of which amounts to F2an offence under this Act, knowing it to have been so . . . F3 stolen . . . or secreted, and to have been sent, or to have been intended to be sent, by post, he shall F4be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years and may be proceeded against and convicted whether the principal offender has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(a)
- F2
Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(b)
- F3
Word repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(b)
- F4
Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(c)
Modifications
- C1
S. 54 applied (7.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/878, art. 4 (with art. 17)
Editorial notes
- X1
S. 54 repealed by (E.W.) Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. I and (N.I.) Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. I
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Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)