{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1677/section-XLVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1677/section-XLVI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/29/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1677",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1677",
  "path": "section/XLVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XLVI",
  "heading": "Officers appointed to receive misapplying Monies;",
  "text": "Penalty.\nAnd it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any of the Officers aforesaid which are appointed by this Act to receive the moneys hereby granted shall after Receipt of the said money divert or misapply the same or any part thereof by vertue of any Warrant from the Lord Treasurer for the time being or other Superior Officer contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act that then such Officer or Officers soe diverting or misapplying the said money shall forfeite the like summe soe diverted or misapplyed which said forfeiture shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record at Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed the one moyety of which forfeiture soe to be recovered shall be to the Informer or him that shall sue for the same and the other moyety thereof to be distributed to the poore of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/29/1/section/XLVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:26.449332+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."
}