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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/28",
  "legislation_title": "Wool Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Admiralty empowered to appoint Ships to seize Vessels carrying Wool, &c.",
  "text": "And for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and Correspondence with France Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord High Admiral of England or Co[m]missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the time being shall from time to time direct and appoint One Shipp of the Fifth Rate & Two Shipps of the Sixth Rate and Foure Armed Sloops constantly to cruize from off the North-foreland to the Isle of Wight with Orders for taking and seizeing all Shipps Vessells or Boats which shall export any Wooll or carry or bring any prohibited Goods or any suspected Persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/28/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:33.268068+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}