Legislation API (UK Open Government Data)
UK public-sector open dataset and API ("Legislation API") registered on data.gov.uk: 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. Alternative
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UK and comparative public-sector, geospatial and open-data integrations (Legislation API).
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Registered on data.gov.uk under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL); public endpoint without central API key requirement.
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Free open government data under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL v3.0).
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Limitations & terms
Geographic coverage applies to the United Kingdom (or England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland depending on the publishing body).
Commercial use: Allowed per source
No terms source recorded; permission has not been established.
Provenance & attributes
Kind: api · HTTPS: unknown · CORS: unknown
Sources: profiles
Categories: Government ·
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