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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-act-1697/section-IX",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/40",
  "legislation_title": "Exportation Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exportation-act-1697",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "Recital of 12 Car. II. c. 32. §7.; and that undue Advantage had been taken thereof; Further Limitation of Actions to Three Years",
  "text": "And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second it is enacted That no Person or Persons whatsoever should or at any time thereafter be impeached for any Offence against the said Act unless such Persons be prosecuted within One Year next ensuing such Offence committed And whereas a great many Persons who have been guilty of transporting Wooll but Discovery thereof hath not been made till the Expiration of Twelve Months after the Offence committed to the great Encouragement of several notorious Offenders for the Prevention whereof Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for this Majesty to cause such Person or Persons as are or shall be guilty of transporting or causeing to be transported any Wooll Wooll fells Fullers Earth or Scouring Clay to be sued and prosecuted at any time within Three Years after the Offence committed in the same manner as Informations or other Penal Statutes have been usually and may lawfully be prosecuted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: his O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: on O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/40/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:43.954202+00:00",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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