Get Act Section Body
get_act_section_bodyRead-only
The publisher's own text for one provision.
Cost: 3 credits. Refunded when we hold the provision and cannot reproduce its text, because you asked for text and did not get it.
The text is sliced out of the act document by the character offsets stored with
each passage. It is never assembled by concatenating search passages: those
carry a retrieval header that we synthesized (Act: ... | India | State | In Force), and serving that as statute would put our words inside a quotation of
the law.
This text is as the publisher published it. We do not apply amendments to
it. GET /acts/{actId}/sections/{n}/history lists every amendment we hold for
the provision, each with an appliedStatus saying whether it is reflected here.
It is not.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| act_id | Yes | Section identifier, e.g. `USC_T42_C21_S1983` (Title 42, Chapter 21, Section 1983, written 42 U.S.C. 1983). Take it from a search result rather than assembling it: the title and section are derivable from a citation but the CHAPTER is not, so hand-built ids usually 404. | |
| section_number | Yes | Section number exactly as the publisher writes it. Alphanumeric suffixes are part of the number, not a sub-provision: `498A` is one section, not section 498 clause A. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||