get_legislation_text

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Read the text of a whole UK Act or statutory instrument — the body of the law rather than a catalogue entry. Use for short instruments and for reading an Act end to end; for one provision prefer get_legislation_section, which returns just that section. Large Acts run to megabytes, so this reads a bounded amount and says plainly when it stopped short rather than returning a silently clipped statute. UK law exists in VERSIONS that differ in substance: pass version to choose "current" (default — the law as amended and in force today), "enacted" (the original text as passed), or a date YYYY-MM-DD for the text as it stood on that day. Every response states which version it served. Source: legislation.gov.uk, the official database.