THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
made with the Governments of Her Majesty's Dominions out of the Act of United Kingdom, and it is expedient to remove such doubts :-
1883.
contd.
Where an arrangement is made with the Government of any British possession for the transmission of small sums through the post offices of the United Kingdom and such British possession by means of money orders, of a like character to those issued under the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, as amended by this Act, the said Act, as amended by this Act, shall, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, and subject to the prescribed modifications, apply in like manner as if an order issued in pursuance of such arrangement, whether by an officer of the Post Office or of such British possession, was an order under the said Act, as amended by this Act, and such portions of the said Act as enact punishments shall apply accordingly.
Provided that-
(a) Any Post Office Regulations in relation to any money orders issued in pursuance of any such arrangement as aforesaid may differ from the Regulations respecting any other money orders; and
(b) Any money orders issued in pursuance of any such arrangement as aforesaid may be of such amount not exceeding the maximum amount in this Act mentioned and in such form and subject to such conditions respecting poundage, commission, the periods during which they are payable and other matters, as the Treasury, on the recommendation of the Postmaster-General, may direct.
(2) In this section the expression "United Kingdom" includes the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the expression "British possession" means any part of Her Majesty's Dominions other than the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
ACT OF 1880—43 & 44 VICT. c. 33, ss. 3-5.
3. Any person who, with intent to defraud, obliterates, adds to, or alters any such lines or words on an order issued under this Act as would, in the case of a cheque, be a crossing of that cheque, or knowingly offers, utters, or disposes of any order, with such fraudulent obliteration, addition, or alteration, shall be guilty of felony, and be liable to the like punishment as if such order were a cheque: Provided always, that any banker or corporation or company acting as bankers in the United Kingdom who, in collecting in such capacity for any principal, shall have received payment or been allowed by the Postmaster-General in account in respect of any money order issued under this Act, or of any document
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