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Australia In-Force Commonwealth Law (Federal Register of Legislation) Research snapshot of in-force Commonwealth legislation from the Federal Register of Legislation, collected via the official OData API (https://api.prod.legislation.gov.au/v1/). Constitution and Acts first, then legislative instruments. Not legal advice. The authorised Federal Register of Legislation text prevails over this corpus. Snapshot Field Value Snapshot date 2026-09-03 Source… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/endomorphosis/ipfs_australia_laws.

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Australia In-Force Commonwealth Law (Federal Register of Legislation)

Research snapshot of in-force Commonwealth legislation from the Federal Register of Legislation, collected via the official OData API (https://api.prod.legislation.gov.au/v1/). Constitution and Acts first, then legislative instruments.

Not legal advice. The authorised Federal Register of Legislation text prevails over this corpus.

Snapshot

FieldValue
Snapshot date2026-09-03
SourceFederal Register of Legislation (Office of Parliamentary Counsel) OData API
Collectorscrapers/collect_federal_register.py
Laws / instruments29,084
Articles309,135
Languageen
JurisdictionAustralia (Commonwealth)
Licensecc-by-4.0

Known gaps

  • —In-force Acts + Constitution are complete (4,765 titles vs API count 4,763 Acts + 1 Constitution; one extra Act vs live count is a timing/delta).
  • —In-force legislative instruments: 24,319 catalogued of 24,329 API in-force LIs. Year-null titles listed with $filter=... and year eq null&$orderby=id (unique sort; $top cap 100). Residual gap of 10 vs live $count is leftover $skip window holes after 99-row pages. Previous snapshot missed ~5,099 year-null LIs because unpartitioned $skip is not a unique sort.
  • —Notifiable instruments, gazettes, prerogative instruments, AAOs, repealed/historical titles, and as-made-only historical versions are out of scope.
  • —Stored text is the current compilation EPUB (else Word/PDF), not the authorised PDF. The Register text prevails.
  • —Live 429s are retried then replayed from Wayback of the same official legislation.gov.au / api.prod.legislation.gov.au URL. No AustLII/Westlaw. No WAF bypass.

Contents

  • —data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL).
  • —data/articles.parquet — one row per section (law_id, article number, title, text, source URL).
  • —scrapers/collect_federal_register.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.

License / reuse

Federal Register of Legislation content is CC BY 4.0 as stated at https://www.legislation.gov.au/terms-of-use (exception: the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and content otherwise noted). Attribute the Federal Register of Legislation, link to the licence, and indicate any changes.

This dataset is not legal advice. The official Register text prevails.

Source

  • —Portal: https://www.legislation.gov.au/
  • —API: https://api.prod.legislation.gov.au/v1/
  • —Swagger: https://api.prod.legislation.gov.au/swagger/index.html
  • —Terms: https://www.legislation.gov.au/terms-of-use
  • —Data share: https://www.legislation.gov.au/help-and-resources/using-the-legislation-register/data-share-and-reuse