Legislation Knowledge Bases

Work with legislation Knowledge Bases.

Legislation Knowledge Bases retrieve relevant portions of legislation, such as chapters, sections or schedules.

Use them when your product needs current legislative context for:

• AI grounding;

• legal search;

• legal agents;

• workflow triage;

• lightweight product integrations.

What they return

Legislation results include:

• the matched legal text in content.text;

• work metadata such as title, work_frbr_uri, frbr_place and expression_date;

• portion metadata such as portion_type, portion_id, portion_title and portion_public_url;

• a public URL for the source work.

In some cases, a result may represent a page of a PDF when the legislation has not yet been converted into Akoma Ntoso format.

Recommended filters

For most legislation retrieval, use:

{
  "principal": true,
  "repealed": false
}

Add a place filter when the user or workflow is about a specific jurisdiction:

{
  "frbr_place": "za-cpt"
}

See Filters for details.

Versions

Knowledge Bases focus on the latest available legislation. Use the Content API when your product needs point-in-time versions or full local copies of legislation.