{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hackney-coaches-etc-act-1694/section-XVII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hackney-coaches-etc-act-1694/section-XVII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5-6/22",
  "legislation_title": "Hackney Coaches, etc. Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hackney-coaches-etc-act-1694",
  "path": "section/XVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVII",
  "heading": "Recital of 29 Car. II. c. 7. 175 Coaches may drive upon the Lord's Day.",
  "text": "And whereas by one Act of Parliament made in the Nine and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of King Charles the Second entituled An Act for the better observac[i]on of the Lords Day co[m]monly called Sunday; the standing to hire and driveing of Hackney-Coaches on the Lords day are restrained; And whereas the said restrainte is many times found to be inconvenient aswell in order to the observac[i]on of the day as otherwise Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Co[m]missioners to appointe (without any fee or reward for the same) One hundred seaventy five and noe more of the said Hackney-Coaches to ply stand and drive on the Lords Day within the weekely bills of Mortality only; so as the wholl number of Seaven hundred may be imployed successively:-",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5-6/22/section/XVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:50.075511+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."
}