{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lustrings-act-1697/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lustrings-act-1697/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/43",
  "legislation_title": "Lustrings Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lustrings-act-1697",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Officers in the King's Service, having Command of a Vessel, importing or permitting to be imported or unshipped, Silks, &c.",
  "text": "Penalty and Incapacity; Seamen or other Persons informing; Reward and Discharge from the Service, and Certificate for Wages .\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Commission or Warrant Officer or other Person who now is or hereafter shall be in the Service of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors and shall have the Command or Charge of any Ship or Vessel whatsoever shall import bring send or convey or cause procure or suffer to be imported brought sent or conveyed or take or load on board any Alamodes or Lustrings in order to be imported into this Kingdom or shall unship or suffer to be unshipt into any Barge Hoy Boat or other Vessel any such Silks knowing thereof he shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties to which he is liable by this or any other Act be ipso facto rendred incapable of serving His Majesty His Heirs and Successors either by Sea or Land or of having or receiving any Benefit or Advantage which he shall or may be intituled to by virtue of such Service And if any Seaman Marriner or other Person or Persons whatsoever belonging or which shall belong to any Ship or Vessel shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings which shall be imported brought sent or conveyed in any Ship or Vessel whatsoever into this Kingdom or which shall be unshipt into any Barge Hoy Boat or other Vessel either at Sea or in any Harbour Creek or Bay in this Kingdom in order to be imported contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act such Person or Persons making such Discovery shall (over and above such Part of the Forfeitures and Advantages to which he or they shall be intituled by virtue of this Act) be immediately discharged from his or their Service on board such Ship or Vessel if he or they shall desire the same And the Captain or Master of such Ship or Vessel shall immediately give him or them a Ticket or Tickets Certificate or Certificates which shall intitle him or them to all the Wages due to him or them for his or their Service on board such Ship or Vessel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/43/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:42.475430+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."
}