New Legislation Monitor: Laws in UK, EU, US, Japan

New Legislation Monitor is a legislation tracker for new laws and regulations in five jurisdictions. It reads the official sources: legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, the US Federal Register, Japan's e-Gov Law Search and Spain's BOE. It returns one row per new act in one schema.

Each row gives the jurisdiction, act type, official number, title, dates and the official link. The Actor returns metadata only. It does not download the full text.

Use it for regulatory change monitoring, compliance alerts, legal research and policy tracking. It also suits AI agents that need a daily feed of new legislation.

Schedule it daily with monitor mode on. Each run then returns only acts you have not seen before.

New legislation covered: five jurisdictions

Jurisdiction	Official source	What one row means	Rows for 21 Sep to 21 Oct 2026
United Kingdom	legislation.gov.uk new legislation feed	One new Act or statutory instrument (UK, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)	119
European Union	EUR-Lex (Publications Office CELLAR)	One legal act published in the Official Journal: regulation, directive, decision, recommendation	261
United States	Federal Register API	One final rule or presidential document: executive order, proclamation, memorandum	274
Japan	e-Gov Law Search API	One new law: Act, cabinet order, ministerial ordinance or rule	8
Spain	BOE open data API, section I	One general provision: ley, real decreto, orden, resolución and similar	119

Counts change every day. They were counted on 21 October 2026.

Corrigenda and correction slips are left out for the UK and the EU. The US and Spain publish corrections as separate notices. The Actor keeps them with the type Correction, so you can filter them out.

New legislation data you get

Field	Meaning
jurisdiction	UK, EU, US, JP or ES
documentType	Act type in plain English, for example Statutory instrument, Implementing regulation, Final rule, Executive Order, Cabinet order, Royal decree
documentTypeOriginal	Act type as the source names it
number	Official number or citation, for example S.I. 2026/1103, 2026/2153, Executive Order 14436, Real Decreto 830/2026
title	Official title in the source language
titleLanguage	en, es or ja
issuer	Institution, agency or department that made the act
documentDate	Date the act was made, signed or adopted
publishedDate	Date the act was published. For Japan, the promulgation date
effectiveDate	Entry into force or effective date
summary	Short official summary or abstract
subjects	Subject headings or category from the source
url	Official link to the act
sourceId	The source's own ID: legislation.gov.uk path, CELEX number, Federal Register document number, e-Gov law ID or BOE ID
sourceAttribution	Attribution text that the source's reuse terms ask for

Sample EU record from a test run:

{
  "id": "eu:32026D2153",
  "jurisdiction": "EU",
  "jurisdictionName": "European Union",
  "documentType": "Implementing decision",
  "documentTypeOriginal": "DEC_IMPL",
  "number": "2026/2153",
  "title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2153 of 28 September 2026 allowing Slovakia to authorise biocidal products containing ethylene oxide for the protection of cultural heritage (notified under document C(2026) 6723)",
  "titleLanguage": "en",
  "issuer": "Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety; European Commission",
  "documentDate": "2026-09-28",
  "publishedDate": "2026-09-29",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-09-29",
  "summary": null,
  "subjects": null,
  "url": "https://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/2153/oj",
  "sourceId": "32026D2153",
  "sourceName": "EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU)"
}

Sample UK record from the same run:

{
  "id": "uk:uksi/2026/1103",
  "jurisdiction": "UK",
  "documentType": "Statutory instrument",
  "number": "S.I. 2026/1103",
  "title": "The Code of Practice (Right of Trade Unions to Access Workplaces) Order 2026",
  "titleLanguage": "en",
  "documentDate": "2026-10-19",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-19",
  "subjects": "TRADE UNIONS",
  "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1103/made",
  "sourceId": "uksi/2026/1103"
}

Sample Spain record from the same run:

{
  "id": "es:BOE-A-2026-21526",
  "jurisdiction": "ES",
  "documentType": "Royal decree",
  "documentTypeOriginal": "Real Decreto",
  "number": "Real Decreto 830/2026",
  "title": "Real Decreto 830/2026, de 14 de octubre, por el que se regula la concesión directa de una subvención a la Fundación Minería y Vida para el impulso de la sostenibilidad en la industria de las materias primas minerales.",
  "titleLanguage": "es",
  "issuer": "MINISTERIO PARA LA TRANSICIÓN ECOLÓGICA Y EL RETO DEMOGRÁFICO",
  "documentDate": "2026-10-14",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-16",
  "subjects": "Subvenciones",
  "url": "https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-21526"
}

Some fields stay empty because a source does not publish them:

• issuer is empty for the UK and Japan.
• effectiveDate comes from the EU, the US and Japan only.
• summary comes from the UK and the US only.
• number is empty for Spanish resolutions, which have no number.

The Actor never guesses a missing value.

New legislation: how to monitor it

1. Pick the jurisdictions. Leave the list empty for all five.
2. Set the date window. The default is the last 7 days.
3. Add a keyword watchlist. Example: tax, impuesto, artificial intelligence, 個人情報.
4. Optional: keep only some act types. Example: Act, Regulation, Directive, Royal decree.
5. Turn on Monitor mode and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns only new acts.
6. Send the output to Google Sheets, Slack, email or your own system through Apify integrations.

Keyword matching

Keywords search the title, number, summary, subjects and issuer. Titles stay in the source language. Use English keywords for the UK, EU and US, Spanish for Spain and Japanese for Japan.

English and Spanish keywords match whole words. They ignore case and accents, so regulacion matches "regulación". Japanese keywords match anywhere in the text.

Monitor mode

Monitor mode remembers which acts it returned before. Use a different Monitor state key for each watchlist.

Japan timing

e-Gov adds a new law some days or weeks after promulgation. The Actor filters Japan by promulgation date. Use 30 days back or more when you watch Japan. Monitor mode then returns each law once, when it first appears.

New legislation input options

Option	Default	Meaning
Jurisdictions	All five	uk, eu, us, jp, es
Days back	7	Acts published in this many days before the end date
Start date, End date	Empty	Optional fixed window, YYYY-MM-DD
Keyword watchlist	None	Keep only matching acts
Document types	None	Keep only acts whose type contains one of these words
Monitor mode	Off	Return only acts not returned before
Monitor state key	default	Name of the monitor memory
Maximum acts	100	Stop after this many acts, newest first. Set 0 for no limit

New legislation pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the prices on 21 October 2026:

Event	Price (USD)
Actor start, one per GB of memory (the default 256 MB counts as one)	$0.02
Each legal act saved to your dataset	$0.003 ($3 per 1,000)

Acts skipped by your filters or by monitor mode cost nothing. Check the Pricing tab for the current prices.

New legislation sources and licences

• legislation.gov.uk: Open Government Licence v3.0.
• EUR-Lex and CELLAR: reuse is allowed when the source is acknowledged.
• Federal Register: US government work in the public domain.
• e-Gov Law Search: published by Japan's Digital Agency for reuse.
• BOE: commercial and non-commercial reuse is allowed with the credit line "Fuente de los datos: Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado".
• Each record carries its credit line in sourceAttribution.
• The Actor reads public APIs and feeds that need no login. It keeps the pace that each source asks for. For Spain it reads section I only, which holds rules of general application. It skips documents that the BOE has withdrawn from indexing.
• Always check the official text before you act on a record.

New legislation run time

A 7-day run of all five jurisdictions takes about 30 seconds. A 30-day run takes about two minutes. Most of the time goes to legislation.gov.uk, which asks for 5 seconds between requests.

New legislation FAQ

Does it include bills or draft laws?

No. It covers acts that have been made and published. US proposed rules are left out. UK draft statutory instruments appear only when legislation.gov.uk publishes them in its new legislation feed.

Does it include amending acts?

Yes, for the UK, EU, US and Spain. Each amending act is a new act in those sources. e-Gov lists amending acts inside the law they amend, so for Japan you get new laws only.

Can I get the full text?

No. The Actor returns metadata and the official link. Open the link for the full text.

Can I get older acts?

Yes. Set a start date in the past and set maximum acts to 0. One year of all five jurisdictions is about 9,000 acts (estimate from the 30-day counts).

Can an AI agent use it?

Yes. Agents can find and run it through the Apify MCP server or the Apify API. The output uses one schema for all jurisdictions.

New legislation input and output example

This input comes from a real run:

{
  "jurisdictions": [
    "uk",
    "eu",
    "us",
    "jp",
    "es"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "keywords": [
    "tax",
    "customs",
    "impuesto"
  ],
  "monitorMode": false,
  "maxItems": 5,
  "documentTypes": [],
  "stateKey": "default"
}

This is one row from that run's dataset:

{
  "id": "us:2026-21267",
  "jurisdiction": "US",
  "jurisdictionName": "United States (federal)",
  "documentType": "Final rule",
  "documentTypeOriginal": "Rule",
  "number": "91 FR 65980",
  "title": "Regulations Regarding Payment of Tax by Commercially Acceptable Means",
  "titleLanguage": "en",
  "issuer": "Treasury Department; Internal Revenue Service",
  "documentDate": null,
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-19",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-10-19",
  "summary": "This document contains final regulations regarding the payment of tax by commercially acceptable means. The final regulations reflect changes to the law made by the Taxpayer First Act that would allow the IRS to directly accept payments of tax by credit or debit card, without having to connect taxpayers to third-party payment processors. These final regulations remove restrictions on the payment of any fee by the IRS under any contracts related to payment of taxes by credit, debit, or charge card, and on the IRS imposing any fee or charge on persons paying taxes by credit or debit card.",
  "subjects": "Employment taxes; Estate taxes; Excise taxes; Gift taxes; Income taxes; Penalties; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/19/2026-21267/regulations-regarding-payment-of-tax-by-commercially-acceptable-means",
  "sourceId": "2026-21267",
  "sourceName": "Federal Register",
  "sourceAttribution": "Source: Federal Register (federalregister.gov), Office of the Federal Register. US government work, public domain.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T11:14:44.362Z"
}

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