Legislation: Get Legislation Section
Legislation via Parse · government_public
Get the text content of a specific section or part of UK legislation. Returns the readable text extracted from the official XML source, including any amendment annotations. The section path follows the site's URL structure (e.g. 'section/1', 'part/2', 'schedule/1'). Search and retrieve UK legislation from legislation.gov.uk, including Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, and other legislative documents. Supports searching by title/year/number/type, viewing tables of contents, and reading individual section text. Fulfilled by Parse from legislation.gov.uk.
- government-public
- legislation
- legislation-gov-uk
- news-media
- other
- parse
- platform-key
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- government_public
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/47dc5438-5519-4ae0-bec1-bb2697e07c18/get_legislation_section
- Interface artifact
- sha256:1b57017270243f9d797fd93ed1ffd7fc22f147e1f5d497b8fee0346272e82816
- Manifest digest
- sha256:b2aaa751d6385be7c0c5e7ac236912c697707b43370312d19bc34b11899a5e7e
Request fields
- section (string, required): Section path within the legislation, e.g. 'section/1', 'part/2/chapter/1', 'schedule/1'. Corresponds to the path portion of URIs in the table of contents.
- legislation_id (string, required): Legislation identifier path, e.g. 'ukpga/2018/12' for the Data Protection Act 2018.
Example queries
- {"section":"section/1","legislation_id":"ukpga/2018/12"}