{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-XXIII",
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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/XXIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXIII",
  "heading": "; Regulations for hanging Candles, &c.",
  "text": "Penalty 1s.\nAnd be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every householder within the said Cities the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and in all other the places aforesaid whose house adjoyns unto and is next the Street from Michaelmas untill our Lady day yearely shall every hight set or hang out Candles or Lights in Lanthornes or other wise in some part of his house next the street to enlighten the same for Passengers from such time as it shall growe darke untill Nine of the clocke in the evening upon pain to forfeit the su[m]m of One shilling for every default.",
  "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: drake 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/XXIII",
    "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."
}