{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/embezzlement-of-public-stores-act-1697/section-IV",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/41",
  "legislation_title": "Embezzlement of Public Stores Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/embezzlement-of-public-stores-act-1697",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Commissioners of the Navy, Ordnance, &c.; may sell and Buyer may hold any of the said Stores so marked, &c.;on producing Certificate of Commissioners.",
  "text": "Quantities to be expressed in Certificate.\nProvided also and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said principal Officers or Commissioners of the Navy Ordnance or Victualling Office for the time being may sell and dispose of any of the Stores aforesaid soe marked as aforesaid as they did or might have done before the making of this Act and that such Person or Persons as heretofore have or shall hereafter buy any such Stores or other Stores so marked as aforesaid of the said Principall Officers or Commissioners or by their order may keep and enjoy the same without incurring the Penalty of this Act or any Law to the contrary whatsoever upon produceing a Certificate or Certificates under the Hand and Seal of Three or more of the said Principal Officers or Commissioners of the Navy Ordinance or Victualling Office that they bought such Goods from them the said Principal Officers or Commissioners or from such Person or Persons as did buy the said Stores from the said Principal Officers or Commissioners at any time before such Stores were found in their Custody in which Certificate or Certificates the Quantities of such Stores shall be expressed and the time when and where bought of the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them for the time being are hereby impowred and directed from time to time to give such Person or Persons who shall desire the same and have bought and shall hereafter buy any of the aforesaid Stores within Thirty Days after the Sale and Delivery of the said Stores so sold or to be sold as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/41/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:43.490958+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."
}