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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-XXI",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/2",
  "legislation_title": "Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662",
  "path": "section/XXI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXI",
  "heading": "; All the Streets, &c. (Exception) to be paved, &c. at the Costs of the Householders.",
  "text": "How such Pavements to be done.; Penalty.\nAnd be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the open Streets Lanes and Alleys within the said Cities and Places aforesaid (excepting only the new Paving of such Streets and Places for which any of the Inhabitants have contributed and paid theire respective proportions to the Commission[er]s before named according to the Rates aforesaid shall be forthwith sufficiently repaired or paved & from time to time hereafter maintained and kept sufficiently repaired or paved at the costs and charges of the Householders in the same Streets Lanes and Alleys respectively in manner following (that is to say) every of the said Householders to repaire and pave and to keepe repaired and paved the Streets Lanes or Alleys before his House and so far as his Housing Walls or Building extend unto the Channell or middle of the same Street Lane or Alley upon pain to forfeit Twenty shillings for every Perch or Rod (and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity) for every default and of Twenty shillings a weeke for every weeke after untill the same shall be sufficiently paved and amended",
  "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: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Kennell 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/Cha2/14/2/section/XXI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:32:09.581540+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."
}