{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-153",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-153.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013",
  "path": "rule/153",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "153",
  "heading": "False claim of status as creditor, etc",
  "text": "(1) Where the Rules provide for creditors or members of a company a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court’s file or in the hands of a postal administrator or other person, it is an offence for a person, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents which the person has not under the Rules any right to inspect, falsely to claim a status which would entitle the person to inspect them.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Rule is liable to imprisonment, or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 153 in force at 31.1.2014, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3208/rule/153",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:29.914042+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."
}