Legislation API

Posted by Ministry of Justice on 17/02/2011 0 comments

API for www.legislation.gov.uk - launched by The National Archives on 29/07/2010 - giving access to the statute book at various levels, for various times, as reusable html fragments, xml and rdf. The API is RESTful and uses content negotiation, so full access to the data can be achieved using http requests. Alternatively, just append data.xml or data.rdf to any legislation page on the website to return the underlying data. The full API is also available from http://legislation.data.gov.uk.

Overview

Released	2010-07-29
Last updated	2010-07-29
Tags	acts-of-parliament api html-snippets legislation linked-data rdf statutory-instruments the-national-archives XML
Department	Ministry of Justice
Published by	Ministry of Justice
Published via	The National Archives

Resources (download)

Download	Legislation API
	Full description

Details

Name	legislation-api
Licence	UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Geographic coverage	England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Temporal granularity	day
Precision	Official version of legislation. There are known issues with older legislation (before 1996). API users should read the documentation and status messages on the legislation.gov.uk website.