{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690.json",
  "id": "aep/WillandMarSess2/2/6",
  "title": "Mutiny Act 1690",
  "long_title": "An Act for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majestyes Service and for punishing false Musters.",
  "citation": "WillandMarSess2/2/6",
  "type": "aep",
  "year": "WillandMarSess2/2",
  "number": "6",
  "version": "current",
  "date": null,
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 0,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Standing Army, without Consent of Parliament, against Law.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/II",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "II",
      "heading": "Their Majesties or General of the Army may grant Commission for Courts-Martial.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-II",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/III",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "III",
      "heading": "Number of Officers to constitute Courts-Martial.; President not to be under Degree of Field Officer.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-III",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/IV",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "IV",
      "heading": "How Field Officer tried.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-IV",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/V",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "V",
      "heading": "Proviso for Ordinary Process.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-V",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/VI",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "VI",
      "heading": "Proviso for Militia.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-VI",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/VII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "VII",
      "heading": "Continuance of Act.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-VII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/VIII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "VIII",
      "heading": "On all Trials for Life or Death, Officers present to take Oath.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-VIII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/IX",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "IX",
      "heading": "Making, &c. false Certificate to excuse Absence from Muster;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-IX",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/X",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "X",
      "heading": "Officer making untrue Muster;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-X",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XL",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XI",
      "heading": "Commissary or Muster Master to give Notice to Mayor, &c. of Muster, who is to be present;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XL",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XII",
      "heading": "Persons falsely mustered, or offering so to be;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XIII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XIII",
      "heading": "The said Penalty paid out of Arrear of Pay; if no Arrear due, Goods of Officer seized; if no Goods, Imprisonment.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XIII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XIV",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XIV",
      "heading": "Paymaster, &c. withholding Pay;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XIV",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XV",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XV",
      "heading": "Commanding Officer of Troop, &c. to bring in Certificate of Sick, &c.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XV",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XVI",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XVI",
      "heading": "Mustering Servants or Persons by wrong Names;",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XVI",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XVII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XVII",
      "heading": "Recital of Petition of Right.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XVII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XVIII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XVIII",
      "heading": "Officers, &c. Quartered to pay reasonable Prices, to be set at Quarter Sessions.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XVIII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XIX",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XIX",
      "heading": "Officers, &c. taking Money to excuse Quartering; Punishment.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XIX",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XX",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XX",
      "heading": "Paymasters, &c. not to take Fees, or make Deductions other than usual.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XX",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XXI",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XXI",
      "heading": "Act to be publicly read.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XXI",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XXII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XXII",
      "heading": "Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence Money for a Regiment to give Notice thereof to Innkeepers, &c.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XXII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XXIII",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XXIII",
      "heading": "If Subsistence not paid to Officers or Soldiers, or cannot be remitted, Certificate transmitted to Paymaster who is immediately to make Payment thereof.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XXIII",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XXIV",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XXIV",
      "heading": "Muster in Westminster and Southwark to be in Presence of Justices.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XXIV",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/XXV",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "XXV",
      "heading": "Act how far extended to Jersey and Guernsey.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1690/section-XXV",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/2/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:53.726937+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}