{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-61.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Prohibition of affixing placards, notices, etc. on post office letter boxes, etc.",
  "text": "(1) 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, . . . or other property belonging to or used by or on behalf of the Post Office, and shall not in any way disfigure any such office, box, . . . or property.\n(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38, SIF 96), Sch. 6 Pt.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 virtue of Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 2(13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/61",
    "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."
}