{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660/section-VI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660/section-VI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/12/9",
  "legislation_title": "Poll Tax Act 1660",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "Persons dissuading others from paying Rate, or consenting that any other Person shall be under-rated.",
  "text": "Imprisonment.; Except Peers.\nAnd bee it further enacted that if any person or persons shall disswade any other person from paying the rates or summes soe to to bee rated as aforesaid by force or vertue or according to the tenor of this Act, or by corruption shall give consent that any person shall be rated below or under the proportion which any such person ought to pay by the true intent and meaning of this Act, and the said Offences or any of them shall be proved by oath of two Wittnesses before any three or more of the said Commissioners who shall have power by this Act to administer the said Oath, shall by the said Commissioners or any three or more of them be committed to the common goale of the same County (except they be Peeres of the Realme) there to remaine till he or she shall be thence delivered by the Justices of Assize, or Justices of the Peace at the Generall Quarter Sessions to be holden for the same County wherein any such offence shall be comitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/9/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:35:50.277439+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."
}