Section 61 Prohibition of affixing placards, notices, etc. on post office letter boxes, etc.
United Kingdom
A person shall not without due authority affix or attempt to affix any placard, advertisement, notice, list, document, board or thing in or on, or paint or tar, any post office, post office letter box, . . . F1or other property belonging to or used by or on behalf of the F2Post Office, and shall not in any way disfigure any such office, box, . . . or property.
If any person acts in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words repealed by British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38, SIF 96), Sch. 6 Pt. II
- F2
Words substituted by virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(13)
- F3
Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G (as inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 54) and (N.I.) by S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6
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Act repealed (1.1.2001 for ss. 29, 44, 45, and 26.3.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 26, ss. 127(6), 130(1), Sch. 9 Note; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 Table; S.I. 2001/878,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)