{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-etc-act-1691/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-etc-act-1691/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/12",
  "legislation_title": "Highways, etc. Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-etc-act-1691",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Laying Timber &c. in the Highway.; Penalty, 5s.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall lay in any Highway not being twenty Foot broad any Stone Timber Straw Dung or other matter whereby the same shall be any ways obstructed or annoyed on pain to forfeit for every such offence the Sum of five shillings to be levied and disposed of as is aforesaid.",
  "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: anywise O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/12/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:44.173570+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."
}