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Post Office (Newspaper) Act 1881
(44 & 45 Vict c.19, 18th July 1881)

An Act for further regulating the Transmission of Newspapers.
[18th July 1881]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. For the purposes of this Act the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man shall be deemed parts of the United Kingdom.

2. From and after the thirtieth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, so much of section six of the Post Office Act, 1870, as requires that a publication, in order to be a newspaper for the purposes of that Act, shall be printed on a sheet or sheets unstitched, shall be repealed, but such repeal shall not extend to a supplement to a newspaper.