{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-tobacco-and-sugar-act-1685/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-tobacco-and-sugar-act-1685/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Ja2/1/4",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (Tobacco and Sugar) Act 1685",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-tobacco-and-sugar-act-1685",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Importer charged with Duty only for what shall remain Neat after Allowance by Act of Tonnage and Poundage.",
  "text": "And forasmuch as the Commodities aforesaid are lyable to Damage on the Seas, And whereas by the Act of Tonnage and Poundage and the Rules and Instructions for Collecting His Majesties Duties ariseing thereby It is directed that Allowance bee made for Damage by Salt-water or otherwise Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid, That noe Importer of the Commodities chargeable by this Act shall bee charged for any greater Proportion of the Goods herein mentioned duely Entered at the Custome-house then what shall remaine Neate after such Allowance or Abatement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Ja2/1/4/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:58.277776+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."
}