{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-duty-act-1695/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-duty-act-1695/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/35",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Duty Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-duty-act-1695",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Permitting other Ministers so to marry in their Churches,",
  "text": "Penalty £100.\nAnd for the more effectual p[re]venting the Abuses aforesaid Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or Curate who shall substitute or employ or knowingly and wittingly shall suffer and permitt any other Minister to marry any Persons in any Church or Chappell to such Parson Vicar or Curate belonging or apptaining without Publication of Banns or Licences of Marriage first had and obtained shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of One hundred Pounds The aforesaid respective Forfeitures to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Wager or Protection of Law or any more then one Imparlance shall be allowed one Moiety thereof to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them who shall informe or sue for the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/35/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:29.267772+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."
}