{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693/section-VII",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5/7",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Master of Vessel, before he has a Warrant for landing, to deliver in a Particular of Quantity, duly signed, and Oath that no other Salt laid on board.",
  "text": "Officer to certify Quantity.; Penalty.\nAnd be it further enacted That all and every Master and Co[m]mander of any Shipp or Vessel whatsoever that from and after the said Five and twentieth day of March shall transport or carry any Salt or Rock Salt from one Port to another within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed shall before hee or they have any Warrant for the landing or delivering of such Salt (by him transported and carried) on Shore in any Port deliver to the Officers for collecting the said Duties granted by this Act in the said Port appointed to receive the same a true particular of the quantity so transported and carried as aforesaid signed by the Officers for collecting the said Duties granted by this Act and by the Officers of the Customs of the Port from whence the said Shipp or Vessel came and that then the Master or his Mate or the Boatswain of such Ship or Vessel shall make Oath before the Co[m]missioners for collecting the said Duties granted by this Act or their Officers some or one of them that to his knowledge there hath not been laid on board or taken into the said Ship or Vessel any Salt since he or they came from such Port as aforesaid And in case such Ship or Vessel be to deliver one part of her Salt att one Port and another part att another Port or Ports that then the Officer for collecting the said Duties and Officers of the Customs when such part of the said Salt shall be delivered shall certifie on the backside of the Cocquett Transire or other Warrant or else by Certificate alone under the Hands and Seals of the Officers how much and what quantity of the Salt menc[i]oned in the Cocquett Transire or other Warrant from the Port from whence such Ship or Vessel came hath been there landed and delivered upon the Penalty of forfeiting double the Value of the Salt that shall be otherwise delivered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5/7/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:08.433600+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."
}