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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-XXIV",
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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/XXIV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXIV",
  "heading": "Judges, Justices of Peace, &c. upon View or Confession, or Proof by one Witness, may convict of any of the Offences aforesaid.",
  "text": "Penalties how to be disposed of.; Penalties to be levied by Distress; if no Distress or Non-payment of Penalty, (Exception of Peers) Imprisonment.\nAnd for the more speedy Reformation and punishment of all and every the offences aforesaid Bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every one of His Majesties Justices of either Bench and Barons of his Exchequer and every Justice of Peace of the said Cities of London and Westminster and places aforesaid (within theire severall Limitts respectively) shall have power and Authority upon his own knowledge or view confession of the party or proof of one credible witnesse upon Oath before him (which Oath by vertue of this Act such Justice shall have power to administer) to convict any person or persons of any the Offences aforesaid whereby such persons or persons so convict shall incur the penalties and forfeitures aforesaid one Moyety whereof shall be disposed and imployed for and towards the reparation paving and cleansing of the Street or place where the offence shall bee committed and as much or all of the other Moyety as the Justice shall thinke fitt for him or them that shall discover and prosccute the same in case the said conviction be by such discovery and prosecution and if the conviction be by the view or knowledge of such Justices then the said whole penalty to go and be imployed for and towards the repairing paving and cleansing of the said streets or place and shall be leavyed by distresse and sale of the Goods and Chattells of the Offender by warrant under the hand and seale of any such Justice to be directed to the Constable or any other Officer of the same Parish rendring the surplusage to the party and in default of distresse or non payment of the said penalties within six dayes after demand thereof or notice in writing left att the House or dwelling place of the offender by the said Constable or any other Officer the said Offender not being a Peer of this Realm shall bee committed to the Common Goal of the said County or City respectively by the warrant of any such Justice under his hand and seale there to remain without Bail or Mainprize untill payment.",
  "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: everyes 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/XXIV",
    "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."
}