{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-XXXIV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-XXXIV.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/XXXIV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXXIV",
  "heading": "Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received,",
  "text": "Penalty to Party; Penalty to His Majesty.\nAnd for the better preventing such unjust Vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed Receivers General of any the Su[m]ms of Money granted by this Act and to the intent that the said Receivers General may returne a true Account into His Majesties Court of Exchequer of such Su[m]ms of Money as shall be received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputie and Deputies Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Receiver General shall returne or certifie into the said Court any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money to be in Arrear & unpaid after the same have been received either by such Receiver General or his Deputy or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons or Places to be sett insuper in the said Court for any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money that hath been so received That then every such Receiver General shall forfeit to every Person and Persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate Returne or Setting in super Treble Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then One Imparlance and shall also forfeit to His Majesty His Heires and Successors Double the Su[m]m that shall be so unjustly certified or returned or caused to be sett insuper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Reivers 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/XXXIV",
    "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."
}