{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1691/section-V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1691/section-V.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/3/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1691",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1691",
  "path": "section/V",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "Justices of Peace, &c. may act upon Informations about Excise.",
  "text": "Persons refusing to attend, &c.; Penalty.\nAnd bee it further Enacted That it shall and may be Lawfull to and for the Com[m]issioners of Excise and Justices of Peace respectively upon any Informac[i]on exhibited before them for any offence com[m]itted against the Laws of Excise to Sum[m]on any p[er]son or p[er]sons (other then the Partie or Parties accused) to appear before them at a certain day time and place to be inserted in such Sum[m]ons and to give evidence for discovery of the matter in controversie before them and in case of neglect or refusal to appear or if upon appearance such p[er]son or p[er]sons shall refuse to give Evidence when hee shall be thereunto required Every such p[er]son soe makeing default shall forfeit and lose for every such offence any Summe or Sum[m]es of Money not exceeding fourty shillings to be imposed recovered leavied and disposed in manner as herein after is menc[i]oned",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/3/1/section/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:46.357329+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."
}