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bc_statutes_index

B.C. statutes and regulations: index of titles with links to BC Laws (index only)

Find the title of a British Columbia Act or regulation, the Act a regulation is listed under, the ministry that listed it in 2020-21 and, where one was found, the official BC Laws link exactly as a www2.gov.bc.ca page printed it. An INDEX ONLY: no text of any law, not complete and not current (about 430 Acts and 740 regulations as of 2020-21, 129 with a link). Read the law, and check it is in force, on BC Laws. Search by words in the title, by kind, by ministry, or only those with a link.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

Parameters

  • query (string, optional): min length 1, max length 80
  • kind (act, regulation, optional)
  • ministry (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
  • linked_only (boolean, optional)
  • limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 100, default 25
  • offset (integer, optional): min 0, max 10000, default 0

REST

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/bc_statutes_index \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCP

Call the tool bc_statutes_index with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"bc_statutes_index","arguments":{}}}'

What comes back

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.

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