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legislation.gov.uk Legislation API

Legislation types offered by the site's own search include UK Public General Acts, Local Acts, Private and Personal Acts, Acts of the Scottish Parliament, Acts of Senedd Cymru, Church Measures, Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, UK, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland statutory instruments and rules, draft legislation, impact assessments, and legislation originating from the EU. History start, update frequency and delay: Not stated.

Open legislation.gov.uk
Signal Scoredraft model
95
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
4 source links checked
18
Freshness
verified 2026-11-09
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
17

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free, no key or account. Developer page: "It is free for you to reuse, but you should look at the copyright and licensing information."
Rate limits
Not stated. The site links a Fair use policy page, but on 2026-11-09 it served a "Coming Soon" placeholder with no numeric limit.
Licence
OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note
legislation.gov.uk footer, shown on the checked copyright and developer pages: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated." Developer page: "It is free for you to reuse, but you should look at the copyright and licensing information." One carve-out is stated in the same footer: "This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions." Checked 2026-11-09: the /help/copyright page itself served a "Coming Soon" placeholder above that footer.
Attribution
Per the Open Government Licence v3.0, which says: "If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, you must use the following: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-09

  1. 01www.legislation.gov.uk/developer
  2. 02www.legislation.gov.uk/help/copyright
  3. 03www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/data.xml
  4. 04www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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Reply · selected fields
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