{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-57.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Stealing, embezzlement, destruction etc. by officer of Post Office of postal packet.",
  "text": "If any person engaged in the business of the Post Officesteals, or for any purpose whatever embezzles, secretes . . . a postal packet in course of transmission by post, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years . . .",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by (E.W.) (S.) Criminal Damage Act 1971 (c. 48), Sch. Pt. II and (N.I.) S.I. 1977/426 (N.I.4), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 57 amended as to mode of trial (E.W.) by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 17, Sch. 1 para. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 57 amended by S.I. 1981/1675, (N.I. 26), Sch. 2 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/57",
    "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."
}