{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/878",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provisions",
  "text": "Sections 11 (prohibition on sending by post of certain articles), 52 (stealing mail bag or postal packet) and 54 (receipt of stolen mail bag or postal packet) of the 1953 Act shall apply in respect of a postal packet posted before 26th March 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 11 of the 1953 Act was amended by paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 4 and Schedule 11 to the 1969 Act and section 32(2) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 52 and 54 of the 1953 Act extend to Scotland only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/878/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:56:51.962830+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."
}