{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hawkers-act-1697/section-VII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hawkers-act-1697/section-VII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/27",
  "legislation_title": "Hawkers Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hawkers-act-1697",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Constable, &c. upon Notice, &c. neglecting or refusing to assist in executing Act,",
  "text": "Penalty 40s.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Constable Headborough or other Officer or Officers aforesaid shall refuse or neglect upon due Notice or on their own View to be aiding and assisting in the Execution of this Act being thereunto required and each and every such Officer or Officers being thereof convicted by the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses before any Justice of the Peace for the County or Place where such Offence shall be co[m]mitted shall forfeit for each and every such Offence contrary to this Act the Su[m]m of Forty Shillings to be levyed by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Justice of the Peace the one Moiety to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shal be co[m]mitted the other Moiety to the Informer who shal prosecute for the same rendring the Overplus thereof to the Owner if any be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/27/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:50.458014+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."
}