{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1691/section-XXIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1691/section-XXIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/6",
  "legislation_title": "Poll Tax Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1691",
  "path": "section/XXIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXIII",
  "heading": "Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received.",
  "text": "Penalty to Party.; Penalty to Their Majesties.\nAnd for the preventing such unjust vexations as might be occasioned by such persons as shall be appointed Receivers General of any the sums of money granted by this Act And to the intent the said Receivers General may returne a true Account into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer of such su[m]ms of money as shall be received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputy and Deputies Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any such Receiver General shall returne or certifie into the said Court any su[m]m or su[m]ms of money to be in arreare or unpaid after the same hath been received either by such Receiver General or by his Deputy or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any person or persons to be set Insuper in the said Court for any su[m]m or su[m]ms of money that hath been so received that then every such Receiver General shall forfeit to every person and persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust certificate returne or setting Insuper treble the damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in which no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall alsoe forfeit to Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors double the su[m]m that shall be soe unjustly certified or returned or caused to be set Insuper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/6/section/XXIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:42.592937+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."
}