laws_acts

Lists the acts and regulations BC Data holds from BC Laws (King's Printer), filtered by words in the title, kind and in force or repealed. Use laws_section for the text and search (domain laws) for keywords inside the text.

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

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• query (string, optional): max length 100
• kind (act, regulation, optional)
• status (in_force, repealed, optional)
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 20

RESTCopy Anchor Link

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

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool laws_acts 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":"laws_acts","arguments":{}}}'

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.