Evidence-backed facts
- legislation.gov.uk provides stable legislation URIs and content negotiation for enacted texts, metadata, changes, effects, extent, versions, tables of contents, and machine-readable XML, HTML, RDF, and Atom representations. informative
- Public retrieval under applicable Crown and Parliamentary copyright terms does not grant legislative amendment, official-publisher, authentication, commencement, or legal-advice authority. informative
- Clients must bind legislation type, year, number, section, version or date, extent, language, and representation and follow canonical identifiers and linked version metadata. informative
- Online text can contain outstanding effects, annotations, prospective provisions, geographic limits, and update lag and does not by itself prove that a provision is in force or applicable to a case. informative