Telegraph Act 1962

Telegraph Act 1962[a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to consolidate certain enactments empowering the Postmaster General to regulate the use of telegraphs and the general conduct of telegraphic business.
Citation10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 14
Territorial extent 
[b]
Dates
Royal assent29 March 1962
Commencement29 April 1962[c]
Repealed1 October 1969
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokesSee § Repealed enactments
Repealed byPost Office Act 1969
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Telegraph Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 14) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments empowering the Postmaster General to regulate the use of telegraphs and the general conduct of telegraphic business.[1]

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 2(3) of the act repealed 4 enactments, listed in the schedule to the act.[2]

Citation Short title Extent of repeal
48 & 49 Vict. c. 58 Telegraph Act 1885 The whole act.
3 & 4 Geo. 6. c. 25 Post Office and Telegraph Act 1940 The whole act.
2 & 3 Eliz. 28 Telegraph Act 1954 The whole act.
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 15 Post Office Act 1961 In section sixteen, in subsection (2), the words from "section two of the Telegraph Act, 1885" to "transmission of telegrams". In section seventeen, the words "or regulations under section two of the Telegraph Act, 1885". In section eighteen, paragraphs (e) and (f). In the Schedule, the entries relating to the Telegraph Act, 1885, the Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1940, and the Telegraph Act, 1954.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 141(1) of, and part II of schedule 11 to, the Post Office Act 1969, which came into operation on 1 October 1969.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Section 2(1).
  2. ↑ Sections 2(4) and 2(5).
  3. ↑ Section 2(6).

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, Howard (1953). Britain's Post Office: A History of Development from the Beginnings to the Present Day. Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ "Telegraph Act 1962", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Eliz2/10-11 c. 14
  3. ↑ "Post Office Act 1969", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1969 c. 48
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