{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-act-1660/section-VI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-act-1660/section-VI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/12/18",
  "legislation_title": "Navigation Act 1660",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-act-1660",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "No Goods to be carried from one Port of England to another in the Vessel of any Alien.",
  "text": "Exception.; Penalty.\nAnd be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth it shall not be lawfull to any person or persons whatsoever to Load or cause to be Loaden and carryed in any Bottome or Bottomes Ship or Ships Vessell or Vessels whatsoever wherof any Stranger or Strangers borne (unlesse such as shall bee Denizens or Naturalized) be Owners part Owners or Master and wherof three Fourthes of the Mariners at least shall not be English any Fish Victuall Wares Goods Commodityes or Goods of what kinde or Nature soever the same shall be from one Port or Creeke of England Ireland Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede to another Port or Creeke of the same or of any of them under penalty for every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act to forfeit all such goods as shall be loaden and carryed in any such Ship or Vessell together with the Ship or Vessell and all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel, one moyety to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall Informe Seize or Sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered in manner aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Things 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/Cha2/12/18/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:34:20.331572+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."
}