{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fish-teinds-scotland-act-1864/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fish-teinds-scotland-act-1864/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/33",
  "legislation_title": "Fish Teinds (Scotland) Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fish-teinds-scotland-act-1864",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Meeting of persons named in the roll to be called by sheriff.",
  "text": "On the completion and attestation of the roll the sheriff shall summon a meeting of the persons whose names are entered therein to be held in some convenient place within the parish, and shall intimate the time and place for holding such meeting, and the purpose thereof, by advertisement signed by the sheriff clerk, printed copies of which shall be affixed on the principal door of the parish church, and on other public places within the parish as the sheriff shall direct, at least eight days previous to the day of holding such meeting, and the sheriff shall preside thereat; and such meeting may resolve that the fish teinds payable in such parish shall be commuted under the provisions of this Act, and may approve of any deed of agreement between the minister of the parish, the presbytery, and the persons liable in payment of fish teinds, which may then be submitted for that purpose, or may resolve to adjourn to a second meeting to be held within twenty-one days thereafter, in order to prepare and consider any such deed of agreement, or may resolve to submit the terms of such commutation to arbitration; and all questions arising at such meeting or adjourned meeting shall be decided by the votes of a majority of the persons present thereat, and whose names are on the roll, and such decision shall be binding on all persons whose names are on the roll.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/33/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:33.477682+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."
}