{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paving-the-haymarket-act-1696/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paving-the-haymarket-act-1696/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/17",
  "legislation_title": "Paving the Haymarket Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paving-the-haymarket-act-1696",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Owners refusing to pay;",
  "text": "Distress,; and Sale of the Goods.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Owner or Owners of such Cart-load or Parcell of Hay or Straw shall after the said Five and twentieth Day of March refuse to pay the Su[m]m of Three pence for every such Cart-load or Parcell of Hay and the said Su[m]m of One penny for every such Cart-load or Parcell of Straw brought into and standing in the said Street called the Haymarkett as aforesaid it shall and may be lawfull after Demand thereof made by such Person or Persons as shall be thereunto lawfully authorized to levy the same upon the Goods & Chattels of the Offender or Offenders by Warrant of Distresse which any Justice of the Peace of the County of Middlesex or the said City and Liberty of Westminster is hereby authorized to grant under his Hand and Seale on Oath to be made before him by the Party who demanded the same that the same is refused to be paid and that it is not paid which said Goods and Chattells shall and may be sold within Three Days after the Distresse made and the Overplus to be returned to the Owner the Charge of the Distresse being onely deducted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/17/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:17.735689+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."
}