{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-LII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-LII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/10",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697",
  "path": "section/LII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LII",
  "heading": "Persons of 16 Years of Age and upwards who shall not have taken the Oaths before Execution of Act being summoned, and shall refuse to take them, or neglect to appear before Commissioners, to pay Double.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person being of the Age of Sixteene Yeares and upwards and not being within this Realme att the time of the Execution of this Act who shall not before that time have taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by the said last mentioned Act and upon Su[m]mons by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any two or more of the said Co[m]missioners shall refuse to take the said Oaths att the time appointed in the said Warrant or shall neglect to appeare att such time before the Co[m]missioners in order to take the said Oaths (which the said Co[m]missioners or any two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to administer) shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty double the Su[m]ms & Rates which by force and virtue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained hee or she should or ought to pay or be charged with in manner as is before in this present Act appointed touching Papists or reputed Papists.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O omits."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said Oaths 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/Will3/9/10/section/LII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:00.585606+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."
}