{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stannaries-act-1887-repealed-19111998/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stannaries-act-1887-repealed-19111998/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/43",
  "legislation_title": "Stannaries Act 1887 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stannaries-act-1887-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Accounts to be entered in cost book.",
  "text": "The purser of every cost book mine shall, once at least every sixteen weeks, truly enter in the cost book of the mine accounts showing the actual financial position of the company at the end either of the financial month of such company last preceding the time of entry, or of the calendar month last preceding that time, including a statement of all credits, debts, and liabilities, and distinguishing in such accounts the amounts of calls paid, and calls not paid, and also all other accounts, documents, and things that the purser is required to enter therein by the custom of the stannaries, or by the direction of the company, and if any purser shall fail to make such entries or any of them within the time or in manner above directed, he shall, when and so often as he shall so fail, be liable to a penalty not exeeding level 2 on the standard scale, to be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more justices of the peace.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/43/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:37.647137+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."
}