{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-stealers-act-1691/section-VII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-stealers-act-1691/section-VII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/10",
  "legislation_title": "Deer Stealers Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-stealers-act-1691",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Persons convicted before a Justice of Peace for pulling down Pales, &c. imprisoned Three Months.",
  "text": "Provided also and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons shall in the night time pull downe and destroy or cause to be pulled downe and destroyed the Pails or Walls of any Park Forest Chase, Purlieu Paddock Wood or other Ground inclosed where any Red or Fallow Deer shall be then kept That such person or persons so offending being thereof convicted by the Oath of one or more credible Witnesse or Witnesses before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the same County wherein the Offence shall be comitted shall by Warrant from such Justice or Justices as aforesaid suffer Imprisonment for three Months without Bail or Mainprize.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/10/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:39.552705+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}