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GET
A provision's full text

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

API key issued from the developer dashboard. Pass as Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...

Path Parameters

act_id
string
required

Act identifier, as returned by search, /list or /resolve.

Required string length: 1 - 200
Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$
Example:

"IND_state_20326"

section_number
string
required

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.

Required string length: 1 - 40
Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9().\- ]{1,40}$
Example:

"23"

Response

Successful Response

actId
string
required
citation
Citation · object
required

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.

available
boolean
required

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.

Example:

true

currency
Currency · object
required

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
Bodyprovenance · object
required
provenance
Provenance · object
required
meta
Meta · object
required
sectionNumber
string | null
text
string | null

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.

note
string | null

Why available is false, when it is.

wordCount
integer | null
Last modified on September 7, 2026