{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-54.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Receiver of stolen mail bag or postal packet.",
  "text": "If any person receives any mail bag, or any postal packet or any chattel or money or valuable security, the stealing . . . or secreting of which amounts to an offence under this Act, knowing it to have been so . . . stolen . . . or secreted, and to have been sent, or to have been intended to be sent, by post, he shall be 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.",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt.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. 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 54 applied (7.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/878, art. 4 (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "S. 54 repealed by (E.W.) Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt.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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/54",
    "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."
}