{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-in-the-severn-act-1678/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-in-the-severn-act-1678/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/30/9",
  "legislation_title": "Fishing in the Severn Act 1678",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-in-the-severn-act-1678",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Justices of Peace in Worcester, Salop, and Gloucester, to be Conservators, with Power to make Under Conservators.",
  "text": "Warrants to Under Conservators, &c. to search suspected Houses, &c. for Nets, &c. and seize them, such Nets to be burnt, &c.\nAnd to the intent that a perfect execution may be had of this present Act bee it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Justices of the Peace within the said respective Countyes of Worcester Salop and Gloucester wherein they shall be Justices shall be and are hereby appointed Conservators of the said River and to make one or more Under Conservators within their respective limitts and that the said Justices of the Peace shall issue forth their Warrants under the hands and seales of any two of them directed to such Under Conservator or Conservators or to any Constable Tythingman or Headburrough where any such offence shall be committed upon their owne knowledge or information to them given to search in the day time in all suspected Houses and places for all such Netts Instruments Devices and other Engines and the same to seize and bring before the said Justices or in their open Quarter Sessions that the said unlawfull Netts Instruments Devices and Engines may upon the view thereof be burnt destroyed or made uselesse.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/9/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:09.288930+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."
}