UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API
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For Agents
Query Statutory Instruments laid before Parliament, track scrutiny status, and retrieve committee reports across 16 endpoints.
Use for: Find all Statutory Instruments laid this month, What SIs have been laid by the Department of Health?, Retrieve details of a specific Statutory Instrument, Check the scrutiny status of an SI
Not supported: Covers parliamentary scrutiny of Statutory Instruments including laying, procedure, and committee reports. Does not include full SI text or legal force dates - use legislation.gov.uk API for that. Does not cover draft SIs or instruments laid before devolved parliaments.
Jentic publishes the only agent-ready OpenAPI specification for the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API, keeping it validated and up to date. The API exposes details of Statutory Instruments (SIs) laid before Parliament, including negative and affirmative procedures, laid dates, parliamentary scrutiny status, and associated committee reports. It powers legal compliance platforms, regulatory tracking systems, and parliamentary oversight tools monitoring secondary legislation across government departments.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fparliament.uk%2Fstatutoryinstruments" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fparliament.uk%2Fstatutoryinstruments" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API.
Search for Statutory Instruments by title, year, or department
Retrieve details of a specific SI by ID
List SIs by laid date or parliamentary session
Track SI scrutiny status and procedural progress
Access committee reports and recommendations on SIs
Filter SIs by procedure type (negative or affirmative)
Query SIs by parent Act enabling power
Retrieve laying authority and government department details
Use Cases
Patterns agents use UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Regulatory Change Monitoring
Track new Statutory Instruments as they are laid before Parliament to monitor regulatory changes affecting specific sectors. Search by department or keyword via GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search, then retrieve full SI details including laying date, procedure type, and enabling Act. Ideal for compliance teams tracking secondary legislation.
GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search?department=Health to list all SIs laid by the Department of Health
Parliamentary Scrutiny Tracking
Monitor the scrutiny status of affirmative and negative procedure SIs as they progress through parliamentary oversight. GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id} returns current status, while committee report endpoints expose scrutiny recommendations. Useful for parliamentary researchers and legal teams tracking SI approval timelines.
GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}, then GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports to retrieve scrutiny details
Enabling Act Cross-Reference
Link Statutory Instruments to their parent Acts by querying SIs made under specific enabling powers. Filter by Act or section to see all secondary legislation created under a particular statute. This supports legal research connecting primary and secondary legislation.
GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search?enablingAct={act} to list all SIs made under a specific Act
AI-Powered Regulatory Research via Jentic
An AI agent monitoring UK regulation can search for SIs by department or policy area, track scrutiny progress, and retrieve committee reports through Jentic without managing complex filtering or parsing nested SI data. Jentic resolves intents like 'find health SIs laid this year' to the correct endpoints.
Search Jentic for 'find Statutory Instruments by department', load GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search schema, and execute
Key Endpoints
16 endpoints — jentic publishes the only agent-ready openapi specification for the uk parliament statutory instruments api, keeping it validated and up to date.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/Search
Search for Statutory Instruments by various criteria
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}
Retrieve detailed information about a specific SI
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports
Get committee reports for an SI
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/List
List all SIs with filtering and pagination
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/Search
Search for Statutory Instruments by various criteria
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}
Retrieve detailed information about a specific SI
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports
Get committee reports for an SI
GET
/api/StatutoryInstruments/List
List all SIs with filtering and pagination
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API by hand means learning its search and list conventions, handling pagination across scrutiny records, and parsing nested committee-report data yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Statutory Instruments API from the API Directory, and your agent calls it with no credential to manage since it is open-access.
Permission scoping
This API is read-only over public SI scrutiny data, so you limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as searching instruments or fetching one SI and its committee reports by id. Every operation is a GET, so nothing it can call writes or changes parliamentary records.
Credential isolation
The Statutory Instruments API is open-access and needs no credential, so there is no key to store. If you later front it with a gateway token, that token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance, injected at execution time, and never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find health statutory instruments' or 'check an SI scrutiny status', and Jentic returns the matching Statutory Instruments operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API through Jentic.
What is a Statutory Instrument?
A Statutory Instrument (SI) is a form of secondary legislation made under powers granted by an Act of Parliament (primary legislation). SIs allow the government to make detailed regulations without passing new Acts. They are laid before Parliament and subject to negative or affirmative procedure scrutiny.
What is the difference between negative and affirmative procedure?
Affirmative procedure SIs require parliamentary approval (a vote) to come into force. Negative procedure SIs become law automatically unless Parliament votes to reject them within 40 days. The API includes procedure type in SI details.
Can I filter SIs by government department?
Yes. Use GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search with department or laying authority parameters to filter SIs by the government department responsible for laying them. This is useful for tracking regulatory changes in specific policy areas.
How do I find SIs made under a specific Act?
Use the enabling Act filter in GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search to retrieve all SIs made under powers granted by a particular Act of Parliament. The API returns the parent Act and section references for each SI.
Is authentication required for this API?
No. The UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API is a public API with no authentication required. It provides open access to SI data for research, compliance, and monitoring purposes.
Where does Jentic's OpenAPI spec for this API come from?
Jentic imports and validates the official Swagger spec published by UK Parliament at https://statutoryinstruments-api.parliament.uk/swagger/v1/swagger.json, converts it to OpenAPI 3.0.3, and keeps it updated so AI agents and developers can call the API via structured tooling.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which of this API's operations the agent may call, so you can allow only what a task needs, such as searching Statutory Instruments or fetching a single SI and its committee reports by id. Every operation here is a read-only GET over public scrutiny data, so nothing the agent calls can write to or change parliamentary records. You can also restrict the agent to specific endpoints and leave the rest unavailable.
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