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Post Office Act 1908
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59Forgery and stealing of money order
(1)A money order shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning of this Act and of the [24 & 25 Vict. c. 98.] Forgery Act, 1861, and of the [24 & 25 Vict. c. 96.] Larceny Act, 1861, and of any other law relating to forgery or stealing which is for the time being in force in any part of the British Islands.
(2)If any person, with intent to defraud, obliterates, adds to, or alters any such lines or words on a money order as would, in the case of a cheque, be a crossing of that cheque, or knowingly offers, utters, or disposes of any money order with such fraudulent obliteration, addition, or alteration, he shall be guilty of felony, and be liable to the like punishment as if the order were a cheque.
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