{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-no-2-act-1688/section-IX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-no-2-act-1688/section-IX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/4",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-no-2-act-1688",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "Giving false Certificates for Absence of Soldiers.",
  "text": "Penalty £50 and Punishment.\nAnd for the preventing of Fraud and Deceit in Mustering of Soldiers Bee it further Enacted by the Authoritieaforesaid That if any Person shall make or give or procure to be made or given any false or untrue Certificatewhereby to Excuse any Soldiers for their Absence from any Muster or other Service which they ought to attendor performe upon a pretence of Sicknesse or other Cause That then every such Person soe makeing giveing orprocureing such Certificate shall forfeite for every such Offence the Summe of Fifty Pounds and shall be forthwithCashiered and Displaced from such his Office and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any MilitaryOffice or Imployment within this Kingdome or in Their Majestyes Service",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Soldier O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/4/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:41.420390+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."
}