{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697/section-XVII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697/section-XVII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/25",
  "legislation_title": "Stamps Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697",
  "path": "section/XVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVII",
  "heading": "Commissioners Salaries, &c. and incident Charges, to be paid out of the Duties.",
  "text": "Provided always and be it enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty His Heires and Successors or to or for the Commissioners of the Treasury or any Three or more of them or the Treasurer of the Exchequer for the time being out of the Duties ariseing by this Act for or upon stamped Velum Parchment or Paper to cause such Sum & Sums of Money to be expended and paid from time to time for Salaries and other incident Charges as shall be necessary in and for the receiving collecting levying or managing the same Duties by this Act granted Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/25/section/XVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:51.519297+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."
}