{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-5-act-1694/section-XXVII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-5-act-1694/section-XXVII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/6-7/18",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 5) Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-5-act-1694",
  "path": "section/XXVII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXVII",
  "heading": "Recital of 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 22. § 4, 5. and, of certain Doubts therein as to renewing Licences to Stages.",
  "text": "Commissioners for the Hackney Coaches have no Power to grant Licences for longer Time than June 1695.\nAnd whereas upon the Act made the last session of Parliament intituled An Act for licensing and regulateing Hackney Coaches and Stage Coaches the Comissioners being thereby enabled to license Stage Coaches and it being enacted That no Licence continue longer then for One yeare from the date thereof And it being alsoe enacted by the said Act That noe person shall presume to drive or lett to hire any Stage Coach or Coach Horses without haveing such leave or licence as the said Act directs it hath been doubted whether the said Comissioners might make new licences for Stage Coaches after the determination of the first and soe to continue for the terme of One and twenty yeares and what was intended by the general prohition of Stage Coaches (not haveing such licences) without haveing any restraint or limitation of time For explaineing of which doubts Bee it enacted and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid that nothing in the said Act contained shall extend or bee construed any way to impower any Comissioners that are or shall bee appointed by virtue of the said Act to make or grant any licence to any person or persons whatsoever to drive or lett to hire any Stage Coach or Coach Horses to continue or bee in force after the Foure and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety five. And it is hereby declared and enacted that all leases and licences heretofore made and which are to continue after the said Foure and twentieth day of June as for all the time after the said Foure and twentieth day of June shall bee and are hereby declared null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.",
  "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: Prohibition 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/WillandMar/6-7/18/section/XXVII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:53.087352+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."
}