{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/impressment-of-seamen-no-2-act-1640/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/impressment-of-seamen-no-2-act-1640/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/23",
  "legislation_title": "Impressment of Seamen (No. 2) Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/impressment-of-seamen-no-2-act-1640",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Proviso for Masters, Masters' Mates, &c. that shall be in Employment, and for other Persons described.",
  "text": "Provided alwaies That this Act shall not extend to the pressing of any master or masters mate gunner carpenter or Boatswain of any Ship or Vessell that is or shall be in imployment or of above one of ten Mariners of any Ships that shall be inward or outward bound nor to any person that shall be under the age of eighteen or above the age of fifty nor to any person that was rated in the last Subsidies or shall be rated in any Subsidies hereafter to be granted before the time of his being impressed",
  "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: Boatson 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/Cha1/16/23/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:40:25.092445+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."
}