{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-113",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-113.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/26",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000",
  "path": "section/113",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "113",
  "heading": "Recoupment of losses on wrongly paid money orders.",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a money order issued by a Post Office company or a foreign postal administration has been delivered for collection to a banker, and\n(b) a Post Office company (“the company”) has paid the order to the banker when it should not have done so.\n(2) The sum paid may be deducted from sums subsequently falling to be paid by the company company to the banker by way of payment of money orders so issued which have been delivered to the banker for collection.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 113(1)(a) substituted (23.4.2012) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 2012/1095, art. 3(1) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 113(1)(b) substituted (23.4.2012) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 40(2)(b); S.I. 2012/1095, art. 3(1) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 113(2) substituted (23.4.2012) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 40(3); S.I. 2012/1095, art. 3(1) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 111-114 modified (temp.) (15.9.2011) by The Postal Services Act 2011 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2329), art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 113(1)(a) modified (22.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1148, art. 31 (with art. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 113 wholly in force at 26.3.2001, see s. 130 and S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3-42)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/113",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:44.870444+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}