{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1695/section-XIII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/18",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Collectors neglecting to pay Rates,",
  "text": "Commissioners empowered to imprison, and seize Estate, &c; and thereupon to appoint a General Meeting of Commissioners, and give Notice thereof; who are to sell the said Estates if Money be not paid; and to pay Monies detained by Collectors to Receiver General.\nAnd itt is further enacted and declared That if any Collector that shall by virtue of this Act bee appointed for the Receipt of any Summes of Money thereby to bee assessed shall neglect or refuse to pay any Summe or Summes of Money which shall be by him received as aforesaid and to pay the same as in and by this Act is directed and shall detaine in his or theire Hands any Money received by them or any of them and not pay the same att such Tyme as by this Act is directed the Commissioners of each County Rydeing City or Towne respectively or any Three or more of them in theire respective Divisions are hereby authorized and impowered to imprison the Person and seize and secure the Estate both Reall and Personall of such Collectors to him belonging or which shall descend or come into the Hands or Possession of His Heires Executors or Administrators Wheresoever the same can be discovered and found And the said Commissioners who shall soe seize and secure the Estate of any Collector or Collectors shall bee and are hereby impowered to appoint a time for the Generall Meeting of the Commissioners for such County Rideing City Towne or Place and there to cause Publick Notice to bee given att the Place where such Meeting shall bee appointed Twenty dayes att least before such generall Meeting And the Commissions present att such generall Meeting or the major Part of them in case the Moneys detained by any such Collector or Collectors bee not paid or satisfyed as itt ought to bee according to the Directions of this Act shall and are hereby impowered and required to sell and dispose of all such Estates which shall bee for the Cause aforesaid seized and secured or any Parte of them and to satisfy and pay into the Hands of the Receivor Generall the Summe that shall bee soe detained in the Hands of such Collector or Collectors their Heirs Executors or Administrators respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/18/section/XIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:38.537288+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."
}