Full-text search across the official law of New Caledonia on leginova.gouv.nc: Journal officiel (JONC) acts, consolidated texts (lois du pays, délibérations, arrêtés...), codes, case law and Congress debates. Write queries in French. Words are AND-ed by default; "double quotes" search an exact phrase; OU / SAUF (or OR / NOT) combine terms. Each result carries its official URL (cite it) and a next tool call to open it. Restrict scope to get facets (themes, courts, act types...) that can be fed back through filters. An empty result is not proof that a rule does not exist; to fetch a code article by number use leginova_get_code_article.

Structured search mirroring leginova.gouv.nc/recherche-avancee. Pick a target, then either keyword groups (all_words / any_words / exclude_words / exact_phrase) or boolean conditions (ET/OU/SAUF with a field scope), plus filters. Use it for precise requests: acts of a given type and authority over a period, decisions of a given court, articles of selected codes. IDs for themes, authorities, collectivities, act types, courts and codes come from leginova_get_catalogue. Filters apply per target: act_types/authority_ids (actes, textes_consolides), collectivity_ids (actes, codes, global), code_slugs/section_types (codes), courts/court_orders/decision_types/case_number (jurisprudence), consolidated_* (textes_consolides). The meaning of date_from/date_to follows the target: publication date (actes), application date (codes), text date (textes_consolides), hearing date (jurisprudence). There is no article-number field here: use leginova_get_code_article, which tolerates L./Lp. prefixes.

Autocomplete over titles: turns a partial name ("code du travail", "loi du pays 2021-2", "télétravail") into documents with their ids and slugs. Cheaper than a search when the target is known by name.

Lists the 31 consolidated codes published on Leginova with the slug every other code tool expects, the filing authority of each code (Etat, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Province) and the date of the published version. Titles alone mislead: "Code civil applicable en Nouvelle-Calédonie" is filed by New Caledonia, "Code de la consommation applicable en Nouvelle-Calédonie" by the State, next to a separate "Code de la consommation de Nouvelle-Calédonie". Codes can also be mixed: the Code de commerce applicable en Nouvelle-Calédonie, filed by New Caledonia, keeps State-law articles (L.) next to loi du pays articles (Lp.), so competence is read article by article from the prefix. The first call reads every code and takes a few seconds.

Table of contents of a code (parts, books, titles, chapters, sections) with article counts and the section_slug / article_slug needed to read them. Start broad (depth 2), then zoom in with section_slug.

Returns one code article (text, amendment history, place in the code, previous/next articles, official URL). Give either article_slug (from search results or outlines) or article_number. article_number matching is prefix-tolerant: "L. 441-6", "Lp 441-6", "441-6" or "art. 1er" all resolve, and the result states how the match was made (match_status). "Lp." numbers articles adopted or localized by a New Caledonian loi du pays: the metropolitan "L. 441-6" is "Lp. 441-6" in the Code de commerce applicable en Nouvelle-Calédonie. The same number can also exist under several prefixes as distinct articles; the result lists them. Without code_slug, every code is searched. A not_found status is never proof that no legal basis exists: relay the notice.

Full text of a code section (chapter, section...) with all its articles, in reading order. Long sections are returned in chunks: pass back offset to continue.

Reads a consolidated text (loi du pays, délibération, arrêté... in its current version with all amendments applied). mode "outline" returns metadata, the table of articles and the amendment history; mode "full" returns the text itself, chunked by max_chars (pass back offset to continue). Pass article_id to read a single article with its own history. Always state the consolidation date when quoting: the text is the version in force on that date.

Reads a decision published on Leginova (Conseil d'État, Cour de cassation, Cour d'appel de Nouméa, Tribunal administratif, Conseil constitutionnel...): metadata plus the full text extracted from the official PDF, by page range. text_status says whether text was found and, if not, why.

Opens an issue of the Journal officiel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (JONC). Numbers like "2026-00020" are items of the new electronic JONC and return the full act directly; plain numbers like "10068" are classic issues and return their table of contents (acts by section, legal publications, associations), each with the id to pass to leginova_get_jonc_item. The issue date is the JONC publication date of every act it contains. leginova_browse lists the issues of a year.

Reads one item published in the JONC: an act (arrêté, délibération, loi du pays, State law...), a legal publication or an association notice. Returns published_in_jonc_on (date of publication in the JONC) and the filing authority with every act. Recent acts come as structured text. For many older acts Leginova holds metadata only: with pdf_text "auto" the text is then extracted from the official PDF. text_status is "structured", "pdf_text" or "not_available" with a reason (pdf_without_text_layer = image scan, retrying other pages will not help). pdf_scope "whole_issue" means the PDF is the entire JONC issue, not the act alone.

Reads the record of a sitting of the Congrès de la Nouvelle-Calédonie ("compte rendu des débats", numbers like "DR-2026-00005"), extracted from the official PDF by page range. These PDFs run to hundreds of pages and the first access downloads up to 60 MB (a few seconds): read them page range by page range.

Lists a collection chronologically, like the site map: without year, the number of entries per year; with year, every entry of that year (paged with offset/limit). Collections: textes_consolides (by adoption year), jurisprudence (by hearing year), debats (Congress debates), jonc (Journal officiel issues). Useful for "what was published in 2025" questions that a keyword search cannot express.

Identifiers accepted by leginova_advanced_search: codes, themes, issuing authorities, collectivities, act types, courts, decision types, section types and condition scopes. Filter by section and by a contains substring to keep the answer short.