{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-XLVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-XLVI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XLVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XLVI",
  "heading": "Collectors of Parishes, &c. keeping Monies collected in their Hands unduly, or unduly paying away the same;",
  "text": "Penalty £5.; Head Collectors in like Manner offending; Penalty £20. Receiver General or Deputy unduly paying Monies received under this Act; Penalty £500.\nAnd for the more effectuall doeing thereof and that the said Summe of Foure hundred thousand pounds hereby appropriated to the Uses aforesaid may not be diverted or applyed to any other Purpose and alsoe to the Intent that all the Moneys given by this Act may be duly paid into Their Majestyes Exchequer. Bee it further Enacted That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keepe in his hands any part of the Money by him Collected for any longer time then is by this Act directed (other then the Allowance made unto him by this Act) or shall pay any part thereof to any Person or persons other then the Head-Collector or Receiver Generall of such County or Place or his respective Deputie That every such Collector shall forfeit for every such Offence the Summe of Five pounds And in case any Head Collector shall keepe in his hands any part of the Money paid to him by any Collector by vertue of this Act for any longer time then is by this Act directed (other then the Allowance made to him by this Act) or shall pay any part thereof to any person or persons other then the Receiver Generall of such County or Place or his Deputy every such Head Collector shall forfeite for every such Offence the Summe of Twenty Pounds And in case any Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any part of the Moneys paid to him or them by any Collector or Head Collector by vertue of this Act to any person or persons whatsoever (other then the Receipt of Their Majestyes Exchequer and that or within the respective times Limitted by this Act) or in case such Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any part of the said Moneys by any Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Lord Treasurer Under Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or upon any Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation or other Way or Device whatsoever whereby to divert or hinder the Actuall Payment thereof into the Receipt of the Exchequer as aforesaid That then such Receiver Generall shall for every such Offence of himselfe or his Deputy forfeit the Summe of Five hundred pounds to him or them that shall Sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law is to be allowed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1/section/XLVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:46.277072+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."
}