{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697/section-XX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697/section-XX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/25",
  "legislation_title": "Stamps Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1697",
  "path": "section/XX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XX",
  "heading": "Briefs not charged.",
  "text": "Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to charge any Letters Patents for collecting charitable Benevolence commonly called Briefs with the Dutie therein mentioned or to make it necessary that such Briefs should be doubly stamped Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise 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: therein; 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/XX",
    "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."
}