{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/15",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Surrey and Sussex Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "If not sufficient Gravel, Chalk, &c.",
  "text": "Surveyors may dig out of neighbouring Common, paying for the same; Damage to be assessed by Sessions, and Pits filled up again if desired, &c.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones within any Parish Towne Hamlett or Village wherein the said ruinous Places do severally lie to repaire the same it shall and may be lawfull for the said Surveyors in their several and respective Places and such Person or Persons as they shall appoint to digg take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones if the said Justices of the Peace shall direct the same out of the Waste or Co[m]mon of any neighbouring Parish Towne Village or Hamlett paying a reasonable Satisfaction for the same Materials to the Person or Persons that have right to the Soyl where the same shall be so digged and carried away and for such Damage hee or they shall thereby sustaine to be assessed and adjudged by the said Justices att the next special Sessions for the said County in case of difference concerning the same and that the Pitts & Places where and from whence such Materials shall be digged and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient speed if adjudged by the said Justices of Peace as aforesaid or desired by the Party owning such Ground be filled upp and levelled with Earth or other Materials.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/15/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:18.687740+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."
}