{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698/section-XVI",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/10/14",
  "legislation_title": "Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698",
  "path": "section/XVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVI",
  "heading": "Sunday to be observed.",
  "text": "Tavern Keepers not to sell Wine, &c.\nAnd to the end that the Inhabitants Fishermen Seamen and all and every other Person and Persons residing or being at Newfoundland or any the said Island or other Places may with all Devotion joyne in their solemn Prayers and Addresses to Almighty God for the obtaining of his Blessing upon their Persons and Endeavours Be it hereby enacted That all and every the Inhabitants of Newfoundland or the said Islands or Places adjacent near thereto shall strictly and decently observe every Lords Day commonly called Sunday and that none of the said Inhabitants (who keep any Taverne Alehouse or other publick House for Entertainment) shall entertaine or sell vend utter or dispose of to any Fisherman Seaman or other Person whatsoever upon any Lords Day or Sunday any Wine Beer Ale Cyder Strong Waters or Tobacco or any other Liquor or Liquors whatsoever",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/10/14/section/XVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:24.994012+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."
}