{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-relief-act-1691/section-IX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-relief-act-1691/section-IX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/11",
  "legislation_title": "Poor Relief Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-relief-act-1691",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "Churchwarden to receive a Person removed by Warrant of Two Justices of Peace.",
  "text": "Penalty £5.; Distress.; Want of Distress; Imprisonment.\nAnd be it further Enacted That if any person be removed by virtue of this Act from one County Riding City Towne Corporate or Liberty to another by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two Justices of the Peace the Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish or Towne to which the said person shall be so removed are hereby required to receive the said person and if he or they shall refuse so to do he or they so refuseing or neglecting (upon proof thereof by Two Credible Witnesses upon Oath before any Justice of the Peace of the County Riding City or Towne Corporate to which the said person shall be soe removed) shall forfeit for each Offence the sum of Five pounds to the use of the Poor of the Parish or Town from which the said person was removed to be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Offender or Offenders Goods by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of any Justice of the Peace of the County Riding City or Town-Corporate to which such person was removed to the Constable of the Parish or Towne where such Offender or Offenders dwell which Warrant the said Justice is hereby impowered and required to make the Overplus if any be to be returned to the Owner or Owners and for want of such sufficient Distresse then the said Justice shall committ the said Offender or Offenders to the Common Goal of the said County Riding City or Towne Corporate or Liberty there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the space of Forty days.",
  "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/3/11/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:48.088412+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."
}