{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969/section-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969/section-135.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/48",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969",
  "path": "section/135",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Remuneration of the Post Office for issuing dog and game licences in England and Wales.",
  "text": "(1) Any sums falling to be paid by the Secretary of State to the Post Office companyin pursuance of any agreement to which he, it and a council in England or Wales are parties, being—\n(a) an agreement providing for the issue by the Post Office company, on behalf of the council, of licences of all or any of the following kinds, namely, licences for dogs, licences for dealing in game and licences for killing game, and the payment by that Minister to the Post Office company of sums in consideration of its issuing the licences; . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nshall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.\n(1A) In subsection (1) above “the Post Office company” has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Postal Services Act 2000.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 135 repealed (E.W.) (1.8.2007) by The Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2007), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 1(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1970/1681, arts. 2, 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(1) substituted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch. 8, Pt. II para. 11; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(3), Sch. 3 (as substituted by S.I. 2001/1148, art. 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.S.) by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 41, Sch. 7 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 135(1)(b) and word “or” immediately preceding it repealed (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(6), Sch. 9; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(3), Sch. 3 Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 135(1A) inserted (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(2) (with arts 1(3). 4(11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 135(2)(3) repealed (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(6), Sch. 9; S.I. 2000/2957, art. 2(3), Sch. 3 Table"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/48/section/135",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:01.323747+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."
}