192
THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
Act of 1880. purporting to be such a money order, shall not incur liability to anyone except such principal by reason of having received such payment or allowance, or having held or presented such order or document for payment; but this section shall not relieve any principal for whom such order or document shall have been so held or presented of any liability in respect of his possession of the same or of the proceeds thereof.
Fraud and forgery.
[3 & 4 Vict. c. 96.]
[11 & 12
4.-(1) The enactments providing for the punishment of offences relating to stamp duties shall apply in like manner as if the poundage under this Act were a stamp duty.
(2) Sections 19, 22, 23, 26, 29 and 30 of the Post Office Duties Act, 1840, (which relate to dies and paper and to plates and instruments, and to moulds, frames, instruments, and machinery for the making of paper, and to the punishing of fraud) shall apply as if herein re-enacted with the substitution of poundage under this Act for the duties there mentioned, and of orders under this Act for the envelopes therein mentioned.
(3) An officer of the Post Office who re-issues an order previously paid shall be deemed to have issued the order with a fraudulent intent within the meaning of section 4 of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848, and shall be punished accordingly, and that section as amended by this Act shall extend to an offence when committed in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man in like manner as if they were mentioned in that section after Ireland, and penal servitude were substituted for transportation.
[3 & 4 Vict c. 96, &c.; 24 & 25 Vict.
(4) An order under this Act shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning of the Post Office Acts and of the Forgery Act, 1861, (that is to say, 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), and of section 1 of the Larceny Act, 1861, and of any
c. 98; c. 96.]
NOTE:
The above statutes are printed in inverse chronological order so as to preserve the logical sequence of their application.
The Act of 1883 authorises arrangements to be made between the United Kingdom and the Colonies with regard to the issue of Postal Orders—a special form of Money Order sanctioned by the Act and such an arrangement has been made with Hongkong [cf. p. 185]. The Act of 1883 extended to such Postal Orders the provisions of the Act of 1880, which dealt with forgery, and also applied to them a number of provisions of the criminal law. Although the wording of s. 4 of the Act of 1883 does not leave the question entirely free from doubt, it would seem that the application of the Act of 1880 is limited to the United Kingdom and does not extend the Act to the Colony.
The sections of the Post Office Act of 1840, referred to in s. 4 (2) of the Act of 1880, are repealed by 54 & 55 Vict, c. 38.
192
THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
Act of 1880. purporting to be such a money order, shall not incur liability to anyone except such principal by reason of having received such payment or al- lowance, or having held or presented such order or document for payment; but this section shall not relieve any principal for whom such order or document shall have been so held or presented of any liability in respect of his possession of the same or of the proceeds thereof.
Fraud and forgery.
[3 & 4 Vict. c. 96.]
[11 & 12
4.-(1) The enactments providing for the punishment of offences relating to stamp duties shall apply in like manner as if the poundage under this Act were a stamp duty.
(2) Sections 19, 22, 23, 26, 29 and 30 of the Post Office Duties Act, 1840, (which relate to dies and paper and to plates and instruments, and to moulds, frames, instruments, and machinery for the making of paper, and to the punishing of fraud) shall apply as if herein re-enacted- with the substitution of poundage under this Act for the duties there, in mentioned, and of orders under this Act for the envelopes therein mentioned.
(3) An officer of the Post Office who re-issues an order previously paid shall be deemed to have issued the order with a fraudulent intent within the meaning of section 4 of the Post Office (Money Orders) Viet c. 88. Act, 1848, and shall be punished accordingly, and that section as amended by this Act shall extend to an offence when committed in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man in like manner as if they were mentioned in that section after Ireland, and penal servitude were substituted for transportation.
[ 3 & 4 Vict c. 96, &e.;
24 & 25 Vict.
(4) An order under this Act shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning of the Post Office Acts and of the Forgery Act, 1861, (that is to say, 24 & 25 24 & 25 Vict. Vict. c. 98), and of section 1 of the Larceny Act, 1861, and of any
c. 98;
c. 96.]
NOTE:
-The above statutes are printed in inverse chronological order so as to preserve the logical sequence of their application.
The Act of 1883 authorises arrangements to be made between the United Kingdom and the Colonies with regard to the issue of Postal Orders-a special form of Money Order sanctioned by the Act and such an arrangement has been made with Hongkong [cf. p. 185]. The Act of 1883 extend- ed to such Postal Orders the provisions of the Act of 1880, which dealt with forgery, and also applied to them a num- ber of provisions of the criminal law. Although the word- ing of s. 4 of the Act of 1883 does not leave the question entirely free from doubt, it would seem that the application of the Act of 1880 is limited to the United Kingdom and does not extend the Act to the Colony.
The sections of the Post Office Act of 1840, referred to in s. 4 (2) of the Act of 1880, are repealed by 54 & 55 Viet, c. 38.
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