> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://vaquill.ai/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A provision's full text > The publisher's own text for one provision. **Cost: 3 credits.** Refunded when we hold the provision and cannot reproduce its text, because you asked for text and did not get it. The text is sliced out of the act document by the character offsets stored with each passage. It is never assembled by concatenating search passages: those carry a retrieval header that we synthesized (`Act: ... | India | State | In Force`), and serving that as statute would put our words inside a quotation of the law. **This text is as the publisher published it.** We do not apply amendments to it. `GET /acts/{actId}/sections/{n}/history` lists every amendment we hold for the provision, each with an `appliedStatus` saying whether it is reflected here. It is not. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.vaquill.ai/in/openapi.json get /api/v1/in/acts/{act_id}/sections/{section_number}/body openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Vaquill India API description: >- Public API for Indian primary law: Central and State Acts, the instruments of the principal regulators, and their individual sections. **Authentication**: Pass your API key via the `Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...` header. The same key works against the US API; the two share one credit balance. **Credits**: Each call costs API credits. See `GET /api/v1/api-credits/pricing` for the full pricing matrix. ## Coverage | Layer | Volume | |---|---| | Enactments (Central, State and UT) | 22,265 | | Individually addressable provisions | 1,098,577 | | Regulator instruments | roughly half the corpus | Regulators covered include SEBI, RBI, MCA, IRDAI, TRAI, DGFT, MOEFCC and CPCB. `sourceUrl` points at the publisher's own document where we hold a live one, and is `null` otherwise. India Code migrated hosts in August 2026 and re-minted its identifiers, so links into the old site no longer resolve; we return nothing rather than a link that 404s. `pdfUrl` and `textUrl` are served from our own mirror and are unaffected. ## Scope This document describes the **India** surface only. US statutes are a separate document at `/external/openapi.json`, so an MCP client configured here sees Indian tools and nothing else. version: 1.0.0 contact: name: Vaquill API Support url: https://www.vaquill.ai email: support@vaquill.ai license: name: Proprietary url: https://www.vaquill.ai/terms termsOfService: https://www.vaquill.ai/terms servers: - url: https://api.vaquill.ai description: Production security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] paths: /api/v1/in/acts/{act_id}/sections/{section_number}/body: get: tags: - Indian Acts & Legislation summary: A provision's full text description: >- The publisher's own text for one provision. **Cost: 3 credits.** Refunded when we hold the provision and cannot reproduce its text, because you asked for text and did not get it. The text is sliced out of the act document by the character offsets stored with each passage. It is never assembled by concatenating search passages: those carry a retrieval header that we synthesized (`Act: ... | India | State | In Force`), and serving that as statute would put our words inside a quotation of the law. **This text is as the publisher published it.** We do not apply amendments to it. `GET /acts/{actId}/sections/{n}/history` lists every amendment we hold for the provision, each with an `appliedStatus` saying whether it is reflected here. It is not. operationId: >- get_act_section_body_api_v1_in_acts__act_id__sections__section_number__body_get parameters: - name: act_id in: path required: true schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 200 pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$ description: Act identifier, as returned by search, /list or /resolve. examples: - IND_state_20326 title: Act Id description: Act identifier, as returned by search, /list or /resolve. - name: section_number in: path required: true schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 40 pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9().\- ]{1,40}$ description: >- Section number exactly as the publisher writes it. Alphanumeric suffixes are part of the number, not a sub-provision: `498A` is one section, not section 498 clause A. examples: - '23' title: Section Number description: >- Section number exactly as the publisher writes it. Alphanumeric suffixes are part of the number, not a sub-provision: `498A` is one section, not section 498 clause A. responses: '200': description: Successful Response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActSectionBodyResponse' example: actId: IND_state_20326 sectionNumber: '23' citation: citation: The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002., s. 23 citationShort: Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002., s. 23 displayPath: >- The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002. / Chapter V. RETURNS AND ASSESSMENT, ETC. / s. 23 breadcrumb: - type: chapter num: V label: Chapter V name: RETURNS AND ASSESSMENT, ETC. text: >- 23. Assessment.—[6] [( _1_ ) Where a registered dealer fails to file a return in respect of any period by the prescribed date, the Commissioner may assess the dealer in respect of the said period to the best of his judgment without serving a notice for assess… available: true wordCount: 4449 currency: textIs: as_published amendmentsApplied: false amendmentEventsHeld: 44 note: >- This is the publisher's published text. We do not apply amendments to it, so it may not reflect changes recorded against this provision. See GET /acts/{actId}/sections/{n}/history. bodyProvenance: chunksHeld: 16 contiguous: true source: act_document chunkIndexRange: - 120 - 135 actTextUrl: >- https://acts-india.vaquill.ai/IND_state_20326/act.normalized.txt charStart: 128276 charEnd: 149776 provenance: sourceUrl: https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/568111 textUrl: >- https://acts-india.vaquill.ai/IND_state_20326/act.normalized.txt pdfUrl: https://acts-india.vaquill.ai/IND_state_20326/act.pdf meta: processingTimeMs: 606 creditsConsumed: 3 '401': description: Missing or invalid API key content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError' '402': description: Insufficient credits content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError' '403': description: Key lacks the research:read scope content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError' '404': description: No such act or provision content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError' '422': description: Validation Error content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError' '429': description: Rate limited content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError' components: schemas: ActSectionBodyResponse: properties: actId: type: string title: Actid sectionNumber: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Sectionnumber citation: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Citation' text: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Text description: >- The publisher's text for this provision, sliced from the act document by the stored character offsets. Never a concatenation of retrieval passages: those carry a synthesized header that is ours, not the publisher's. available: type: boolean title: Available description: >- Whether the provision's text could be reproduced. False with a `note` when we hold the provision and cannot serve its text; a null `text` alone cannot be told apart from an empty provision. A false answer here is refunded. examples: - true note: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Note description: Why `available` is false, when it is. wordCount: anyOf: - type: integer - type: 'null' title: Wordcount currency: additionalProperties: true type: object title: Currency description: >- What this text is and is not. It is the publisher's published text; we do NOT apply amendments to it. See GET /acts/{actId}/sections/{n}/history. bodyProvenance: additionalProperties: true type: object title: Bodyprovenance provenance: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Provenance' meta: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta' type: object required: - actId - citation - available - currency - bodyProvenance - provenance - meta title: ActSectionBodyResponse ApiDetailError: properties: detail: type: string title: Detail description: >- Human-readable reason, safe to surface to an end user. Branch on the HTTP status rather than on this string: the wording is not part of the contract and may be reworded, but 401 (bad key), 402 (out of credits), 403 (missing scope), 404 (no such resource) and 429 (rate limited) are stable. examples: - Insufficient API credits. type: object required: - detail title: ApiDetailError description: |- Error envelope the API actually returns. All errors (401/402/403/404/422/429/5xx) come back as a single `detail` string (FastAPI default), e.g. `{"detail": "Insufficient API credits."}`. Documenting the real shape so client code can rely on it. HTTPValidationError: properties: detail: items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError' type: array title: Detail type: object title: HTTPValidationError Citation: properties: citation: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Citation citationShort: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Citationshort displayPath: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Displaypath breadcrumb: anyOf: - items: additionalProperties: true type: object type: array - type: 'null' title: Breadcrumb type: object title: Citation description: >- How to cite the thing this response is about. Present on 99.90% of served acts. Where the publisher's own title carries a defect, so does the citation: 10.4% of titles end in a period, which reads as `... Act., s. 3`, and 4.7% carry no year at all. Both are recorded defects rather than reasons to withhold the field. Provenance: properties: sourceUrl: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Sourceurl description: The publisher's own page for this document, when it resolves. sourceUrlNote: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Sourceurlnote description: >- Why `sourceUrl` is absent, when it is. A named reason, because a bare null cannot be told apart from 'not applicable'. textUrl: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Texturl pdfUrl: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' title: Pdfurl type: object title: Provenance Meta: properties: processingTimeMs: type: number title: Processingtimems description: >- Server-side time for this request in milliseconds, excluding network transit. Not billed on. default: 0 examples: - 142.7 creditsConsumed: type: number title: Creditsconsumed description: >- Credits actually charged. Read this rather than assuming the list price: refunded work bills 0. default: 0 examples: - 2 type: object title: Meta ValidationError: properties: loc: items: anyOf: - type: string - type: integer type: array title: Location msg: type: string title: Message type: type: string title: Error Type input: title: Input ctx: type: object title: Context type: object required: - loc - msg - type title: ValidationError securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: vq_key_* description: >- API key issued from the developer dashboard. Pass as `Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...` ````