{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1696/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1696/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1696",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Eight Months allowed to cut down Timber; on Neglect, Timber to be sold, &c. Charges deducted.",
  "text": "Provided also and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Order or Decree shall be made by the said Justices for the laying out of Ground for the enlargeing of High-ways that the Owners or Proprietors of the said Ground have hereby free Liberty within Eight Months after such Order to cutt downe any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground or upon the neglect thereof that the same shall be sold by Order of the said Justices and the Owners of such Wood or Timber shall receive the full of what shall be made of such Wood or Timber (the Charges of working the same being first deducted.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/16/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:18.230831+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}