{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-LXV",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/10",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697",
  "path": "section/LXV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXV",
  "heading": "Commissioners empowered to abate, on Proof that Lands are charged above 33. in the Pound; and the Money so abated to be reassessed, as they shall judge most equal.",
  "text": "Provided always That if any Person or Persons who shall be charged or assessed by this Act to or with a Pound Rate upon his or their Mannors Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the Premisses shall upon Complaint made to the Co[m]missioners in such manner and within such time as are herein directed in Cases of Appeal make it appeare to the said Co[m]missioners or any Three of them by Proof upon Oath that such Assessment doth exceed Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full yearely Value in such Case upon such Proof and due Examination thereof the said Co[m]missioners are hereby impowered to abate and lessen the said Assessments so much as the same shall exceed Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true yearely Value and noe more and shall cause the Money so abated to be reassessed surcharged & levied in such manner as they or any Three or more of them in their Judgements or Discretions shall judge most equal just and reasonable either within the whole Hundred Lath Wapentake or other Division for which they shall be Co[m]missioners or if any particular Part or Parts of the same or any Person therein shall appeare to them to be undercharged then the Moneys so abated shall and may be raised upon such particular Part or Persons so undercharged so that the whole Su[m]m payable to His Majesty for such Hundred Lath Wapentake or other Division shall be fully and duely answered and paid without being diminished by reason of any such particular Abatement Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/10/section/LXV",
    "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."
}