{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1693/section-XXVIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1693/section-XXVIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5/1",
  "legislation_title": "Land Tax Act 1693",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1693",
  "path": "section/XXVIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXVIII",
  "heading": "Receiver General certifying Monies to be due when the same have been paid, &c.",
  "text": "Penalty.\nAnd for the better preventing of such unjust vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed Receivers General of any of the su[m]ms of money granted by this Act And to the intent that the said Receivers General may returne a true account into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer of such sums of money as shall be received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputy and Deputies be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any such Receiver General returne or certify into the said Court any sum or su[m]ms of money to be in Arrear or unpaid after the same have been received either by such Receiver General or by his Deputy or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons to bee sett Insuper in the said Court for any su[m]m or su[m]ms of money that hath been soe received that then every such Receiver General shall be liable to pay to every Person and Persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate returne or setting Insuper Treble the Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informa[i]n in which noe Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall also forfeit to Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors double the su[m]m that shall be so unjustly certified or returned or caused to bee sett Insuper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5/1/section/XXVIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:12.257240+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."
}