{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693/section-XX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693/section-XX.json",
  "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/XX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XX",
  "heading": "Proviso for Persons losing Salt at Sea.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Merchant or other person being a subject of this Realme of England shall dureing the continuance of this Act ship any Salt or Rock-Salt that hath paid the Duty to their Majesties by this Act imposed to convey it by Sea to any part of England and the Vessel on which such Salt as aforesaid is shipt shall either perish att Sea or be taken by Enemies with such Salt on board her that in such case any Merchant or person Owner of the said Salt shall upon proof made before the Justices of the Peace att the Quarter Sessions held for the County Riding Division or Towne wherein hee doth inhabit of the losse of such Salt so shipt receive from the said Sessions a Certificate that such proof was made before them and upon produceing the said Certificate to any of their Majesties Officers appointed to collect the Duty by this Act imposed the said Officer or Officers are hereby required to let such persons buy the like quantity of Salt as is expressed in the Certificate to bee lost without paying to their Majesties any Duty or Excise for the same any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "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/XX",
    "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."
}