{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-60.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Prohibition of placing injurious substances in or against post office letter boxes or telephone kiosks.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not place or attempt to place in or against any post office letter box . . . any fire, match, light, explosive substance, dangerous substance, filth, noxious or deleterious substance, or fluid, and shall not commit a nuisance in or against any post office letter box . . . , and shall not do or attempt to do anything likely to injure the box, . . . or its appurtenances or contents.\n(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100 or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38, SIF 96), Sch. 6 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/60",
    "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."
}