Finds Commonwealth acts and legislative instruments on the Federal Register of Legislation by title. Returns title ids for the other tools. Falls back to full-text matching when nothing matches by name.

Returns the latest compilation of a Commonwealth act or instrument. Without a section number it lists the table of sections; with one it returns that provision. Set full=true for the whole text, paginated.

Returns the compilation of a Commonwealth act that was in force on the given date — the register keeps every historical version. Same output shape as get_law_text.

Reports whether a title is in force, what its latest compilation incorporates, whether commenced amendments are still unincorporated, and which acts have amended it.

Shows what changed in an act between two dates: which sections were added, removed or reworded. Give a section number for a line-by-line diff of that provision.

Extracts Australian statute citations from text and checks each against the Federal Register of Legislation: does the act exist, is it still in force, does the cited section exist in the current compilation. Use before presenting legal citations to a user. An upstream failure is reported as UNVERIFIED, never as a missing law.

Searches the body text of every act and instrument on the register for a phrase, ranked by relevance. Slower and broader than search_law.

Pings the Federal Register of Legislation API and reports latency, so failures elsewhere can be attributed.