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legislation.gov.uk / Search UK legislation by title, text, year

Searches UK legislation (Acts, statutory instruments, devolved and retained EU law) by words in the title or the text, type and year. Answer: an Atom XML feed (text) with openSearch:totalResults and one entry per item: title, id (the legislation URI, e.g. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2010/15), links, updated, ukm:Year and ukm:Number. 20 results per page. No match answers a feed with totalResults 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.

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page query · optional
Page number, from 1.
text query · optional
Words in the text, e.g. data protection.
title query · optional
Words in the title, e.g. equality.
year query · optional
Only this year.

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