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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001/article-42",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1148",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "The Postal Order Scheme",
  "text": "The Consignia Holdings PLC (Postal Order) Scheme 2001 shall apply in respect of a postal order issued as a British postal order before 26th March 2001 by the Post Office, by a person holding office under the Crown who was authorised to issue the postal order by the Post Office or by a postal administration of a country outside the United Kingdom in pursuance of an arrangement described in section 24 of the 1953 Act (arrangements with other countries as to money orders).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "London Gazette, 23/03/2001, pages 3326–3328."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1148/article/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:33.173074+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."
}