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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/schedule",
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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": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS COMING INTO FORCE ON 26TH MARCH 2001",
  "text": "Provision\nSubject matter of provision\nSection 83\nInterfering with the mail: postal operators\nSection 84\nInterfering with the mail: general\nSection 85\nProhibition on sending certain articles by post\nSection 86\nProhibition on affixing advertisements on certain letter boxes etc.\nSection 87\nProhibition on misleading descriptions\nSection 88\nObstruction of business of universal service providers\nSection 109\nEvidence of thing being a postal packet\nSection 127(6), in so far as it relates to the repeals and revocations specified in the table below\nGeneral amendments and repeals\nIn Schedule 9, the repeals and revocations specified in the table below\nRepeals and revocations\nTable\nReference\nShort Title\nExtent of Repeal\n1 & 2 Eliz. 2 c. 36\nPost Office Act 1953\nSection 11\nSections 25 to 28\nSection 32\nSections 52 to 65\nSections 68 to 70\nSection 72\nSection 79\n1967 c. 80\nCriminal Justice Act 1967\nIn Schedule 3, in Part I, the entries in respect of the Post Office Act 1953\n1981 c. 45\nForgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981\nSection 29\n1985 c. 56\nInterception of Communications Act 1985\nSection 11(2)\nS.I. 1993/1324\nPost Office (Abolition of Import Restrictions) Regulations 1993\nThe whole Regulations\nNote: The repeal of section 52 of the Post Office Act 1953 (which extends only to Scotland) does not affect any liability at common law in respect of any offence described in that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/878/schedule",
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  "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."
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