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What this provision points at

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"

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:

"79"

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.

totalActs
integer
required

Distinct enactments this provision names, before the cap on rows. acts is shorter than this when the provision names more than the cap; truncated says so.

totalSections
integer
required

Distinct own-act sections cross-referred, before the cap on rows.

truncated
boolean
required

True when either list was cut to the row cap. This route is not paged: one provision's own outbound edges are a short list, and the cap exists only so a malformed passage cannot return unbounded output.

matchBasis
string
required
meta
Meta · object
required
sectionNumber
string | null
acts
ReferencedAct · object[]

Other enactments this provision names.

sections
ReferencedSection · object[]

Sections of this act it cross-refers to.

note
string | null
Last modified on September 11, 2026