federal_law_section

Return the text of one section (or the preamble, a schedule, the order, the recent amendments or a repealed document's notice) of an English federal Act or regulation, by its code (for example A-1, C-46, SOR-2001-286 or SOR/2001-286) and section label (for example 2, 2.1, 91). Without a section it returns the table of contents: each section's number, marginal note and heading. The text is as stored from the consolidation: nothing is summarised. Federal law only, not B.C. law; a convenience consolidation, not the official version.

Cost: 2 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• code (string, required): min length 1, max length 60
• kind (act, regulation, optional)
• unit (section, preamble, schedule, order, amendments, notice, optional): default "section"
• section (string, optional): min length 1, max length 40
• max_chars (integer, optional): min 1000, max 100000, default 30000
• offset_chars (integer, optional): min 0, max 5000000, default 0
• toc_limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 300, default 150

RESTCopy Anchor Link

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

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool federal_law_section 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":"federal_law_section","arguments":{"code":"..."}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

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