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Australian Federal Legislation Search

Australian Federal Legislation Search

Search the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au): Acts, legislative instruments, notifiable instruments and bills. Get title, ID, status (in force / repealed), making date, year, number, name history and a direct link. Filter by keyword, collection and in-force status.

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Search the Federal Register of Legislation — every Commonwealth Act, legislative instrument and notifiable instrument — and get structured records with status, dates, name history and a direct link.

What you get

{
"id": "C2004A03712",
"name": "Privacy Act 1988",
"url": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03712",
"collection": "Act",
"status": "InForce", "isInForce": true, "isPrincipal": true,
"makingDate": "1988-12-14T00:00:00",
"statusHistory": [{ "status": "InForce", "start": "1988-12-14T00:00:00" }]
}

Use cases

  • Compliance and legal research: find every instrument touching a topic, with in-force status
  • Monitor for new legislation (schedule with madeAfter = yesterday)
  • Feed an AI legal-research agent with authoritative titles and links
  • Build a dataset of repealed vs in-force instruments for analysis

Input

FieldNotes
queryWords that must appear in the title
collectionActs, legislative instruments, etc.
inForceOnlyDefault on
principalOnlyExclude amending instruments
madeAfterISO date floor
sortNewest, oldest, or A-Z
maxResultsUp to 10,000

Pricing

Pay only for what you use: US$0.005 per run + US$0.001 per result (about US$1 per 1,000 results). The free Apify plan's monthly credits cover thousands of results, so you can try it at no cost.

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Notes

Uses the public Federal Register of Legislation API. Content is © Commonwealth of Australia, generally available under CC BY 4.0. Not affiliated with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.