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au-c1901a00002
Acts Interpretation Act 1901
Acts Interpretation Act 1901 Acts Interpretation Act 1901 No. 2, 1901 Compilation No. 39 Compilation date: 28 March 2026 Includes amendments: Act No. 4, 2026 About this compilation This compilation This is a compilation of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force o...
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1901A00002
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2026-03-28
1901-07-12
2026-09-02T21:47:58Z
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Legislation at https://www.legislation.gov.au/terms-of-use (exception: Commonwealth Coat of Arms and content otherwise noted). Attribute the Federal Register of Legislation, link to the CC BY 4.0 licence, and indicate any c...
current
Act 2/1901
Act 2/1901
83
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au-c1901a00006
Customs Act 1901
"Customs Act 1901\n\nCustoms Act 1901\n\nNo. 6, 1901\n\nCompilation No. 191\n\nCompilation date: 28 (...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1901A00006
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2026-03-28
1901-10-03
2026-09-02T21:48:01Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 6/1901
Act 6/1901
1,257
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1901a00006.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1901a00009
Excise Act 1901
"Excise Act 1901\n\nExcise Act 1901\n\nNo. 9, 1901\n\nCompilation No. 68\n\nCompilation date: 28 Mar(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1901A00009
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2026-03-28
1901-10-05
2026-09-02T21:47:59Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 9/1901
Act 9/1901
239
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1901a00009.json
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au-c1902a00012
Royal Commissions Act 1902
"Royal Commissions Act 1902\n\nRoyal Commissions Act 1902\n\nNo. 12, 1902\n\nCompilation No. 25\n\nC(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1902A00012
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2026-03-28
1902-09-08
2026-09-02T21:47:59Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 12/1902
Act 12/1902
63
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1902a00012.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1903a00006
Judiciary Act 1903
"Judiciary Act 1903\n\nJudiciary Act 1903\n\nNo. 6, 1903\n\nCompilation No. 51\n\nCompilation date: (...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1903A00006
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2024-12-11
1903-08-25
2026-09-02T21:47:59Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 6/1903
Act 6/1903
152
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1903a00006.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1903a00020
Defence Act 1903
"Defence Act 1903\n\nDefence Act 1903\n\nNo. 20, 1903\n\nCompilation No. 87\n\nCompilation date: 1 J(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1903A00020
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2026-07-01
1903-10-22
2026-09-02T21:47:59Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 20/1903
Act 20/1903
413
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1903a00020.json
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au-c1905a00015
Census and Statistics Act 1905
"Census and Statistics Act 1905\n\nCensus and Statistics Act 1905\n\nNo. 15, 1905\n\nCompilation No.(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1905A00015
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2020-10-01
1905-12-08
2026-09-02T21:48:00Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 15/1905
Act 15/1905
24
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1905a00015.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1905a00016
Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905
"Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905\n\nCommerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905\n\nNo. 16, 1905\n\(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1905A00016
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
2024-10-14
1905-12-08
2026-09-02T21:48:00Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 16/1905
Act 16/1905
21
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1905a00016.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1906a00008
Audit Act 1906
"AUDIT.\n\nNo. 8 of 1906.\n\nAn Act to amend the Audit Act 1901.\n\n[Assented to 24th September, 190(...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1906A00008
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
1906-09-24
1906-09-24
2026-09-02T21:48:01Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 8/1906
Act 8/1906
0
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1906a00008.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
au-c1907a00001
Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906
"CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SENATE ELECTIONS).\n\nNo. 1 of 1907.\n\nAn Act to alter the provisions of (...TRUNCATED)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1907A00001
federal_register_legislation
AU
Australia
en
null
1907-04-03
1907-04-03
2026-09-02T21:48:01Z
"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), as stated by the Federal Register of Le(...TRUNCATED)
current
Act 1/1907
Act 1/1907
0
/workspace/legal-corpora/au/instruments/au-c1907a00001.json
"{\"schema_version\": \"collection_record.v1\", \"record_type\": \"law\", \"law_identifier\": \"Act (...TRUNCATED)
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Australia In-Force Commonwealth Law (Federal Register of Legislation)

Research snapshot of in-force Commonwealth legislation from the Federal Register of Legislation, collected via the official OData API (https://api.prod.legislation.gov.au/v1/). Constitution and Acts first, then legislative instruments.

Not legal advice. The authorised Federal Register of Legislation text prevails over this corpus.

Snapshot

Field Value
Snapshot date 2026-09-03
Source Federal Register of Legislation (Office of Parliamentary Counsel) OData API
Collector scrapers/collect_federal_register.py
Laws / instruments 29,084
Articles 309,135
Language en
Jurisdiction Australia (Commonwealth)
License cc-by-4.0

Known gaps

  • In-force Acts + Constitution are complete (4,765 titles vs API count 4,763 Acts + 1 Constitution; one extra Act vs live count is a timing/delta).
  • In-force legislative instruments: 24,319 catalogued of 24,329 API in-force LIs. Year-null titles listed with $filter=... and year eq null&$orderby=id (unique sort; $top cap 100). Residual gap of 10 vs live $count is leftover $skip window holes after 99-row pages. Previous snapshot missed ~5,099 year-null LIs because unpartitioned $skip is not a unique sort.
  • Notifiable instruments, gazettes, prerogative instruments, AAOs, repealed/historical titles, and as-made-only historical versions are out of scope.
  • Stored text is the current compilation EPUB (else Word/PDF), not the authorised PDF. The Register text prevails.
  • Live 429s are retried then replayed from Wayback of the same official legislation.gov.au / api.prod.legislation.gov.au URL. No AustLII/Westlaw. No WAF bypass.

Contents

  • data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL).
  • data/articles.parquet — one row per section (law_id, article number, title, text, source URL).
  • scrapers/collect_federal_register.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.

License / reuse

Federal Register of Legislation content is CC BY 4.0 as stated at https://www.legislation.gov.au/terms-of-use (exception: the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and content otherwise noted). Attribute the Federal Register of Legislation, link to the licence, and indicate any changes.

This dataset is not legal advice. The official Register text prevails.

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