{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/54-55/39",
  "legislation_title": "Stamp Act 1891",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Penalty for enrolling, &c. instrument not duly stamped.",
  "text": "If any person whose office it is to enrol, register, or enter in or upon any rolls, books, or records any instrument chargeable with duty, enrols, registers, or enters any such instrument not being duly stamped, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding £300.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (27.7.1999 with effect in relation to penalties in respect of things done omitted on or after 1.10.1999) by 1999 c. 16, s. 114, Sch. 17 Pt. I para. 3(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/54-55/39/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:08.797085+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."
}