UK legislation

Source universe · Acquisition routes

Primary authority · Official API · Public

Published by The National Archives. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

• tax legislation
• company law
• employment
• pensions
• insolvency
• partnerships
• financial services

Publication and history

Enacted Acts and instruments are published with stable provision URIs, XML and amendment metadata; revision can lag commencement.

Original, revised and point-in-time legislation where the publisher supplies it; revision status must remain explicit.

Review cadence: Daily. Reliability: Controlling authority.

Acquisition and rights

• Acquisition: Official API

• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

• Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

• Raw storage: Permitted

• Derived assertions: Permitted

• Public use: Attributed derived content

• Visibility: Public

Use CLML/XML and publisher feeds with a descriptive user agent, fair-use request rate and per-item third-party-rights checks.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

• legislation.gov.uk API — Access evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
• legislation.gov.uk copyright — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.