{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hearth-money-act-1664/section-VI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hearth-money-act-1664/section-VI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/16/3",
  "legislation_title": "Hearth Money Act 1664",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hearth-money-act-1664",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "Persons letting Houses to Poor Persons or parcelling out the same to pay the Duty.",
  "text": "All Houses with more than Two Chimnies, &c. (Exception) liable.\nAnd bee it likewise enacted That if any person within one yeare last past hath, or hereafter shall lett the Lands Gardens Orchards or Outhouses formerly belonging to any Dwelling house or Cottage apart from the same, or shall divide any House into severall Dwellings, or lett out the same to any such persons who by reason of their poverty may pretend to be exempted from payment of the said Duty by any Clause or Clauses in the former Acts that in every such case such person shall pay the Duty in as ample manner as they ought to have done before that time, And that noe person or persons inhabiting any Dwelling house (not being an Almes house exempted by the former Act) within any Citty Burrough Corporation or Market Towne or Parish which hath or shall have in it more then Two Chimneyes Fire Hearthes or Stoves shall be exempted from payment of the Dutyes thereon imposed by colour of any exemption or pretext whatsoever,",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "O. omits."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/16/3/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:30:45.737267+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."
}