legislation.gov.uk / Whole text of an Act or instrument

The whole current text of one Act or instrument as Legislation XML. A short one (ukpga/2023/1 is about 65 KB) comes back inline as text; a long one is stored as a file and the answer gives media.downloadUrl (valid about 15 minutes) and a short preview (the Equality Act 2010 is 3.5 MB). For one section use legislation-gov-uk-provision. An unknown Act answers 404 at $0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, (c) Crown copyright: keep this attribution when you reuse it. Free, no key.