Legislation API

Name: Legislation API
Creator: The National Archives
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

data.gov.uk (National Data Library) OGL-UK-3.0 ↪ webpage — more clicking needed The National Archives · updated 2026-06-24

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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.

Files & links (2)

Resource	Format	Verified	Size
Developer Documentation	HTML	↪ webpage — more clicking needed	3 KB
Legislation API	HTML	unchecked

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