{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1696/section-XVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1696/section-XVI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/6",
  "legislation_title": "Land Tax Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tax-act-1696",
  "path": "section/XVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVI",
  "heading": "Collectors to demand Rates monthly, as they become due.",
  "text": "Of whom Demand to be made; Collectors to pay to Head Collectors.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Persons so appointed to be Collectors as aforesaid shall levy and collect all and every the Taxes Rates or Duties so assessed and charged according to the Intent and Direction of this Act which said Collectors are hereby required to demand all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall be so taxed and assessed for the said Duty of Foure Pence per Month payable by all Persons except as herein excepted and for the said Duties on Wages Pensions Anuities Stipends or other Annual Payments and for the said Profitts of Offices Employments or Professions Monthly and every Month as the same shall become due or within Fourteen Days after the several Days and Times hereby appointed for the Payment thereof respectively And the same Collectors or such other Collectors as shall be appointed by the Co[m]missioners in this behalfe shall demand all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall be taxed or assessed as aforesaid for Ready Moneys Debts Stock in Trade or Stock upon Land and for the said Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound upon all Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments & other the Premisses Monthly as the same are before in and by this Act directed and appointed to be paid or within Fourteen Days after any such Monthly Payments shall become due Which said Demands shall and may be made of the Parties themselves if they can be found or else att the place of their last abode or upon the Premisses charged with the Assessment And the said several Collectors shall collect and levy the said Moneys so charged for His Majestys Use and are hereby required and enjoyned to pay unto the respective Head Collectors all and every the said Rates Duties and Assessments by them respectively collected or received within Foureteen Days next and im[m]ediately after the several and respective Days and Times by this Act prefixed or appointed for the demanding receiving and levying of the same as aforesaid att such Place or Places as the Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them shall appoint so as that within every Fourteen Days next and im[m]ediately after the utmost times hereby prefixed for the demanding receiving or levying all & every the said Monthly Payments the whole Su[m]m due for such Monthly Payments respectively shall be paid or answered by the Collectors to the said Head Collectors respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/6/section/XVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:24.184254+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."
}