USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a known Act / SI and want the parsed text of a specific section, with extent and in-force metadata.
Returns full section text, territorial extent, in-force status, and
prospective flag. Content capped per max_chars (default 10,000,
~2,500 tokens) — raise for unusually long definition sections; check
content_truncated in the response.
ALWAYS check `extent` — a section may apply to England & Wales but not
Scotland or Northern Ireland. Reciting a section without checking
extent is a recurring legal-research error.
Alternative: call read_resource(uri="legislation://{type}/{year}/{number}/
section/{section}") for raw CLML XML; use this tool when you want the
parsed structured response instead.
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