{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed/section-76.json",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  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1953 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1953-repealed",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/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Recovery of sums from officers of Post Office.",
  "text": "Where any sum not exceeding twenty pounds is due from any person engaged in the business of the Post Office or from his sureties in respect of moneys received in the discharge of his duty, it may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, be recovered in England, Wales or Northern Ireland summarily as a civil debt . . .",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 76 applied (22.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1148, art. 6 (with art. 34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/36/section/76",
    "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."
}