{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-LXVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-LXVI.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/LXVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXVI",
  "heading": "Receivers General answerable for Deputies; and so to appoint them that no Sub-Collector may be forced to travel above Ten Miles for Payment of his Money.",
  "text": "Penalty £100.\nAnd it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Receiver General of each County shall nominate constitute and appoint fit and proper Persons for whom hee shall be answerable to be his Deputy or Deputies to receive from the said Subcollectors all and every the Rates Duties and Assessments by them respectively collected or received And the said Receivers General are hereby required to nominate and appoint so many of such Deputies in their resp[e]c[t]ive Counties that no Subcollector may be forced to travel above the Space of Ten Miles from the usual Place of his Abode for the Payment of the said Moneys that shall be by him so collected or received And if any Receiver General shall neglect or refuse to nominate and appoint such Deputies in manner aforesaid such Receiver General shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of One hundred Pounds the one Moiety to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record art Westminster in which Action or Suit no Essoigne Protection Priveledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/10/section/LXVI",
    "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."
}