Legislation Lookup

Quick Legislation Lookup

You search UK legislation and retrieve the text of a specific section. This is a lookup, not a full legal brief.

Required Setup

Connect the UK Legal MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-legal": {
      "url": "https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Workflow

1. Get the legal topic or Act name from the user
2. Call legislation_search with keywords to find the relevant Act or SI
3. Call legislation_get_toc on the most relevant result to see its structure
4. Call legislation_get_section to retrieve the specific section text
5. Present the section with its status

Output

## [Act Name], [Section Number]

**Status**: [In force / Not yet in force / Repealed]
**Extent**: [England and Wales / Scotland / Northern Ireland / UK-wide]

[Section text]

**Note**: [Any relevant context about amendments or commencement]

Keep it factual. This is a text lookup, not legal advice.

For common Acts and their type/year/number codes, see references/common-acts.md. For search tips and edge cases, see references/search-tips.md. Use the output template in assets/output-template.md.

Want More?

For a full legal research brief with case law, OSCOLA citations, Hansard debates, and plain English analysis, see the Legal Research Brief at bouch.dev/tools/legal-research.

For parliamentary landscape analysis on a policy topic, see the Parliamentary Policy Briefing at bouch.dev/tools/policy-briefing.