ukleg.legislation.recent
Get the most recently published or updated pieces of UK legislation. Returns recently enacted Acts, Statutory Instruments, and other legislation with title, type, year, chapter number, publication date, and brief description. Filter by legislation category: use primary for Acts of Parliament, sec...
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What ukleg.legislation.recent does on Apibase
AI agents call ukleg.legislation.recent to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
type | string | — | Filter by legislation category. Use primary for all primary legislation (Acts), secondary for all Statutory Instruments, or a specific code like ukpga, uksi, as |
limit | integer | — | Number of recent legislation items to return (1–20, default 10). |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why ukleg.legislation.recent is rated Low
Tool retrieves and queries public legislative data with no side effects, modifications, or external actions.
From the tool's definition Get the most recently published or updated pieces of UK legislation. Returns recently enacted Acts, Statutory Instruments.
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The rule that runs ukleg.legislation.recent safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ukleg.legislation.recent, this is the rule to start with:
ukleg.legislation.recent is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every ukleg.legislation.recent call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about ukleg.legislation.recent
Get the most recently published or updated pieces of UK legislation. Returns recently enacted Acts, Statutory Instruments, and other legislation with title, type, year, chapter number, publication date, and brief description. Filter by legislation category: use primary for Acts of Parliament, secondary for Statutory Instruments, or specific type codes (ukpga, uksi, asp, asc, nia). Useful for tracking new laws, regulatory changes, and parliamentary activity. Data source: legislation.gov.uk — The National Archives, Open Government Licence v3.0, no auth required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
ukleg.legislation.recent accepts 2 parameters: type, limit. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ukleg.legislation.recent: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
ukleg.legislation.recent is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the ukleg.legislation.recent rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for ukleg.legislation.recent. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
ukleg.legislation.recent is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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