# Post Office Act 1953 (repealed), Section 63: Prohibition of fictitious stamps.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Except for such purposes as may be approved by the Post Office in writing and in accordance with such (if any) conditions as may be attached to the approval, a person shall not . . .
(a) make, knowingly utter, deal in or sell any fictitious stamp;
(b) have in his possession, unless he shows a lawful excuse, any fictitious stamp; or
(c) make or, unless he shows a lawful excuse, have in his possession any die, plate, instrument or materials for making any fictitious stamp.
(2) A person shall not knowingly use for the purposes of the Post Office any fictitious stamp.
(3) If any person acts in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale
(4) Any stamp, die, plate, instrument or materials found in the possession of any person in contravention of subsection (1) of this section may be seized and shall be forfeited.
(5) The importation into the United Kingdom from a place outside the member States . . . —
(a) of any facsimile, imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any stamp for denoting any rate of postage, whether of the British postal area or of any country outside that area; or
(b) of any die, plate, instrument or materials for making such a facsimile, imitation or representation,
is hereby prohibited.
(6) In this section the expression “fictitious stamp” means any facsimile, imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any stamp for the time being authorised or required to be used for the purposes of the Post Office or of any current stamp for denoting a rate of postage of any country outside the British postal area.
(7) Notwithstanding anything in sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the effect of repeal and re-enactment), any reference to section sixty-five of the Post Office Act 1908, in, or in any regulations made under, any other enactment applying or adapting that section for the purposes of that enactment or of any such regulations shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the provisions of that section as originally enacted, being the provisions set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/63 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-63
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