{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/moss-troopers-act-1662/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/moss-troopers-act-1662/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/22",
  "legislation_title": "Moss Troopers Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/moss-troopers-act-1662",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Persons employed in the Border. Service corruptly forbearing to discover or apprehend Offenders; Disability. Imprisonment.",
  "text": "And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border Service and shall att any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbeare to discover or apprehend or to bring to tryall any of the said persons called Moss Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or theire offence as the Justices of Peace att theire General Sessions shall thinke fitt to infliof his or theire offence as the Justices of Peace att theire General Sessions shall thinke fitt to inflict",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/22/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:31:52.627338+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."
}