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National Laws 85% open

Great Britain

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Note: The methodology used in the Global Open Data Index has changed over time; significantly so between 2015 and 2016. For this reason, the results are not directly comparable over time.

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.

Content of the law / status
Date of last amendment
Amendments to the law (if applicable)

How open is the data?

It's openly licenced
It's in an open and machine-readable format
It's not downloadable at once
It's up-to-date
It's publicly available
It's available free of charge

Changes to legislation are flagged and noted but not always integrated into the body of the legislation, apparently due to a longstanding backlog. The data is re-usable under the Open Government Licence as noted in the standard footer on pages of the Legislation.gov.uk site. The data is mainly plain text, i.e. not highly structured.

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Meta data

Data location	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ - Legislation.gov.uk https://leggovuk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ - Legislation downloads
Data licence	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/
Data format	HTML, TXT, XML
Reviewer	Anton Shaffer
Submitters	Owen Boswarva
Last modified	Mon Dec 05 2016 22:28:27 GMT+0000 (UTC)

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Reviewers

Anton Shaffer

Submitters

Owen Boswarva

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