{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678/section-XXVIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678/section-XXVIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/30/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1678",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678",
  "path": "section/XXVIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXVIII",
  "heading": "Apprentices, &c. disbanded, rendering themselves to their Masters, and Masters refusing to receive them, not to be sued, &c. on Indenture, &c.",
  "text": "And whereas severall persons who are Apprentices and Servants by Indenture or otherwise out of their Loyalty to their Soveraigne and for the good of their Country have taken up Arms and listed themselves in the Army or Forces which are now to be disbanded by reason thereof themselves or their Friends may be sued or molested upon their said Indentures Contracts or Covenants For remedy whereof Bee it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any of the said Persons or Souldiers who shall be disbanded by reason of this Act shall before the Nine and twentyeth of September next tender himselfe to his said Master to serve out his or their time and if the said Master shall neglect or refuse to take him or them againe into his service That then and in such case neither he nor they nor any of his or their Suretyes or Friends shall be sued or molested upon his or their Indenture or Indentures or upon any Bonds Contracts and Covenants for or by reason of his or their departing out of his or their said service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/1/section/XXVIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:19.069703+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."
}