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What points at this act

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_17068"

Query Parameters

page
integer
default:1

1-based page number.

Required range: x >= 1
Example:

1

pageSize
integer | null

Rows per page (1-100). Defaults to 25.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 100
Example:

25

limit
integer | null
deprecated

DEPRECATED alias for pageSize, kept working for clients written against the original shape. Send one or the other, not both.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 100
Example:

25

Response

Successful Response

actId
string
required
total
integer
required

Distinct citing PROVISIONS across all pages, not rows on this page (that is returned) and not matching passages. One provision can be stored as many passages: the Indian Penal Code matches 9,586 passages belonging to 1,367 distinct provisions, and this is the 1,367.

totalIsExact
boolean
required

False when the corpus scan behind total hit its ceiling, which makes total a floor rather than a count. True on every act in the corpus today: the ceiling sits above the largest citing set measured, the Companies Act, 2013 at 53,699 passages.

returned
integer
required

Rows in citers on THIS page.

page
integer
required

1-based page this response answers.

pageSize
integer
required

Rows per page requested.

hasMore
boolean
required

True when a further page of citing provisions exists.

truncated
boolean
required

DEPRECATED, kept so an existing client does not break. True when hasMore is true or totalIsExact is false. Read those two instead: this one field cannot tell 'there is a page 2' apart from 'we stopped counting'.

matchBasis
string
required

publisher_title: edges are matched on the act's title as the publisher wrote it, so treat the result as a floor.

meta
Meta · object
required
title
string | null
citation
string | null
citers
CitedByRow · object[]
note
string | null
Last modified on September 11, 2026