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Browse and filter enactments rather than searching their text: by jurisdiction (central or a state), issuing regulator, year and status. Use when the user wants to know WHAT exists in an area before asking what it says, or to confirm an Act's exact title before citing it. Cost: 1 credit.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`page`	No	1-based page number.
`sort`	No	Sort order. `popular` is DEPRECATED and behaves as `year_desc`: it ordered by a read counter held only in the retired store. Values: `year_desc`, `year_asc`, `title_asc`, `title_desc`, `popular`.	year_desc
`state`	No	Jurisdiction slug. `central` is a value here, for Union legislation. Live counts per jurisdiction are on GET /acts/coverage.
`search`	No	Keep only acts whose title contains this substring, matched case-insensitively. A title filter, not a search over the text: use POST /acts/search for that.
`status`	No	The publisher's lifecycle status for the act. Their claim, not our verdict: see GET /acts/{actId}/status. Values: `in_force`, `repealed`, `superseded`, `spent`.
`yearTo`	No	Latest year of enactment to include, inclusive.
`category`	No	Jurisdictional class of the instrument. `repealed` and `spent` are accepted for backward compatibility and resolve against the act's status instead. Values: `central`, `state`, `regulatory`, `repealed`, `spent`.
`pageSize`	No	Results per page (1-100).
`yearFrom`	No	Earliest year of enactment to include, inclusive. Matched against the publisher's own year field, which is occasionally corrupt, so there is no lower bound and a value below 1800 is a legitimate way to find those rows.
`department`	No	Accepts both regulator slugs such as `sebi` and `rbi` and free-text state department names such as `Law Department`. Values are not limited to a fixed enum or a uniform slug format.

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
No arguments

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed6 schema fields changedOct 10, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / category / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "enum": [
+      "central",
+      "state",
+      "regulatory",
+      "repealed",
+      "spent"
+    ],
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

removedInput schema / properties / category / enum

Removed value: -[
-  "central",
-  "state",
-  "regulatory",
-  "repealed",
-  "spent"
-]

changedInput schema / properties / state / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "enum": [
+      "andaman-and-nicobar-islands",
+      "andaman-nicobar",
+      "andhra-pradesh",
+      "arunachal-pradesh",
+      "assam",
+      "bihar",
+      "central",
+      "chandigarh",
+      "chhattisgarh",
+      "dadra-and-nagar-haveli-and-daman-and-diu",
+      "dadra-nagar-haveli",
+      "delhi",
+      "goa",
+      "gujarat",
+      "haryana",
+      "himachal-pradesh",
+      "jammu-and-kashmir",
+      "jammu-kashmir",
+      "jharkhand",
+      "karnataka",
+      "kerala",
+      "ladakh",
+      "lakshadweep",
+      "madhya-pradesh",
+      "maharashtra",
+      "manipur",
+      "meghalaya",
+      "mizoram",
+      "nagaland",
+      "odisha",
+      "puducherry",
+      "punjab",
+      "rajasthan",
+      "sikkim",
+      "tamil-nadu",
+      "telangana",
+      "tripura",
+      "uttar-pradesh",
+      "uttarakhand",
+      "west-bengal"
+    ],
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

removedInput schema / properties / state / enum

Removed value: -[
-  "andaman-and-nicobar-islands",
-  "andaman-nicobar",
-  "andhra-pradesh",
-  "arunachal-pradesh",
-  "assam",
-  "bihar",
-  "central",
-  "chandigarh",
-  "chhattisgarh",
-  "dadra-and-nagar-haveli-and-daman-and-diu",
-  "dadra-nagar-haveli",
-  "delhi",
-  "goa",
-  "gujarat",
-  "haryana",
-  "himachal-pradesh",
-  "jammu-and-kashmir",
-  "jammu-kashmir",
-  "jharkhand",
-  "karnataka",
-  "kerala",
-  "ladakh",
-  "lakshadweep",
-  "madhya-pradesh",
-  "maharashtra",
-  "manipur",
-  "meghalaya",
-  "mizoram",
-  "nagaland",
-  "odisha",
-  "puducherry",
-  "punjab",
-  "rajasthan",
-  "sikkim",
-  "tamil-nadu",
-  "telangana",
-  "tripura",
-  "uttar-pradesh",
-  "uttarakhand",
-  "west-bengal"
-]

changedInput schema / properties / status / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "enum": [
+      "in_force",
+      "repealed",
+      "superseded",
+      "spent"
+    ],
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

removedInput schema / properties / status / enum

Removed value: -[
-  "in_force",
-  "repealed",
-  "superseded",
-  "spent"
-]

Changed1 schema field changedSep 29, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / department / description

Previous value: -"Issuing body. Deliberately NOT an enumerated list: this field holds 943 distinct values and mixes clean regulator slugs (`sebi`, `rbi`, `moefcc`) with free-text state department names (`Law Department`). Read GET /acts/filters for the values with the most data behind them."New value: +"Accepts both regulator slugs such as `sebi` and `rbi` and free-text state department names such as `Law Department`. Values are not limited to a fixed enum or a uniform slug format."

Changed17 schema fields changedSep 14, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / category / description

Previous value: -"Jurisdictional class."New value: +"Jurisdictional class of the instrument. `repealed` and `spent` are accepted for backward compatibility and resolve against the act's status instead. Values: `central`, `state`, `regulatory`, `repealed`, `spent`."

changedInput schema / properties / department / description

Previous value: -"Issuing body. Free text rather than a list: 943 distinct values, mixing regulator slugs with state department names. See GET /acts/filters."New value: +"Issuing body. Deliberately NOT an enumerated list: this field holds 943 distinct values and mixes clean regulator slugs (`sebi`, `rbi`, `moefcc`) with free-text state department names (`Law Department`). Read GET /acts/filters for the values with the most data behind them."

changedInput schema / properties / page / description

Previous value: -"Page number"New value: +"1-based page number."

addedInput schema / properties / page / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  1
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / pageSize / description

Previous value: -"Results per page (1-100)"New value: +"Results per page (1-100)."

addedInput schema / properties / pageSize / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  50
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / search / description

Previous value: -"Filter by title substring"New value: +"Keep only acts whose title contains this substring, matched case-insensitively. A title filter, not a search over the text: use POST /acts/search for that."

addedInput schema / properties / search / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "income tax"
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / sort / description

Previous value: -"Sort order. `popular` is DEPRECATED and behaves as `year_desc`: it ordered by a read counter held only in the retired store."New value: +"Sort order. `popular` is DEPRECATED and behaves as `year_desc`: it ordered by a read counter held only in the retired store. Values: `year_desc`, `year_asc`, `title_asc`, `title_desc`, `popular`."

changedInput schema / properties / state / description

Previous value: -"Jurisdiction slug. `central` is a value here."New value: +"Jurisdiction slug. `central` is a value here, for Union legislation. Live counts per jurisdiction are on GET /acts/coverage."

changedInput schema / properties / status / description

Previous value: -"The publisher's lifecycle status for the act."New value: +"The publisher's lifecycle status for the act. Their claim, not our verdict: see GET /acts/{actId}/status. Values: `in_force`, `repealed`, `superseded`, `spent`."

changedInput schema / properties / yearFrom / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "integer"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "maximum": 2100,
+    "type": "integer"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

changedInput schema / properties / yearFrom / description

Previous value: -"Minimum year (inclusive)"New value: +"Earliest year of enactment to include, inclusive. Matched against the publisher's own year field, which is occasionally corrupt, so there is no lower bound and a value below 1800 is a legitimate way to find those rows."

addedInput schema / properties / yearFrom / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  2015
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / yearTo / anyOf

Previous value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "integer"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]New value: +[
+  {
+    "maximum": 2100,
+    "type": "integer"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]

changedInput schema / properties / yearTo / description

Previous value: -"Maximum year (inclusive)"New value: +"Latest year of enactment to include, inclusive."

addedInput schema / properties / yearTo / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  2024
+]
```

Changed14 schema fields changedSep 7, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / category / description

Previous value: -"Filter: central, state, regulatory, repealed, spent"New value: +"Jurisdictional class."

addedInput schema / properties / category / enum

Added value: +[
+  "central",
+  "state",
+  "regulatory",
+  "repealed",
+  "spent"
+]

addedInput schema / properties / category / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "central"
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / department / description

Previous value: -"Filter by regulatory body (e.g. 'sebi', 'rbi')"New value: +"Issuing body. Free text rather than a list: 943 distinct values, mixing regulator slugs with state department names. See GET /acts/filters."

addedInput schema / properties / department / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "sebi"
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / sort / description

Previous value: -"Sort: year_desc, year_asc, title_asc, title_desc, popular"New value: +"Sort order. `popular` is DEPRECATED and behaves as `year_desc`: it ordered by a read counter held only in the retired store."

addedInput schema / properties / sort / enum

Added value: +[
+  "year_desc",
+  "year_asc",
+  "title_asc",
+  "title_desc",
+  "popular"
+]

addedInput schema / properties / sort / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "title_asc"
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / state / description

Previous value: -"Filter by state slug (e.g. 'maharashtra', 'delhi')"New value: +"Jurisdiction slug. `central` is a value here."

addedInput schema / properties / state / enum

Added value: +[
+  "andaman-and-nicobar-islands",
+  "andaman-nicobar",
+  "andhra-pradesh",
+  "arunachal-pradesh",
+  "assam",
+  "bihar",
+  "central",
+  "chandigarh",
+  "chhattisgarh",
+  "dadra-and-nagar-haveli-and-daman-and-diu",
+  "dadra-nagar-haveli",
+  "delhi",
+  "goa",
+  "gujarat",
+  "haryana",
+  "himachal-pradesh",
+  "jammu-and-kashmir",
+  "jammu-kashmir",
+  "jharkhand",
+  "karnataka",
+  "kerala",
+  "ladakh",
+  "lakshadweep",
+  "madhya-pradesh",
+  "maharashtra",
+  "manipur",
+  "meghalaya",
+  "mizoram",
+  "nagaland",
+  "odisha",
+  "puducherry",
+  "punjab",
+  "rajasthan",
+  "sikkim",
+  "tamil-nadu",
+  "telangana",
+  "tripura",
+  "uttar-pradesh",
+  "uttarakhand",
+  "west-bengal"
+]

addedInput schema / properties / state / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "maharashtra"
+]
```

changedInput schema / properties / status / description

Previous value: -"Filter: in_force, repealed, spent"New value: +"The publisher's lifecycle status for the act."

addedInput schema / properties / status / enum

Added value: +[
+  "in_force",
+  "repealed",
+  "superseded",
+  "spent"
+]

addedInput schema / properties / status / examples
```
Added value: +[
+  "repealed"
+]
```

First observedSep 6, 2026

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