{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693/section-XI",
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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/XI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XI",
  "heading": "Quarter Sessions to set the Rate of Salt.",
  "text": "Selling above the Rate;; Penalty.\nAnd be it further enacted That the Justices of the Peace not concerned in makeing or selling Salt in every County Riding or Division of England shall and are hereby authorized and impowered att every Easter and Michaelmas Quarter Sessions to sett the prizes of all Salt and Rock Salt to bee sold by the maker or first seller thereof in the said County for the halfe yeare next ensuing and that noe person or persons that shall be the maker or first seller of any Salt shall sell the same for more then the prizes so sett by the said Justices as aforesaid over and above the duty payable by virtue of this Act upon pain of forfeiting for every such Offence Five pounds and double the value of the Salt so sold to be levied by distresse and sale of the Offenders Goods the one moiety thereof to be paid to their Majesties their Heires and Successors and the other moiety thereof to the Informer.",
  "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/XI",
    "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."
}