legislation-parser

!All data downloaded by this application falls under Crown copyright: Crown copyright information is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. Sketch from the first 2016 @savecressingham campaign Judical Review court room. ‘Sketch of ’the bundle’ of legal documents used in @savecressingham Judicial review of 2016.

Script to download and parse data published by www.legislation.gov.uk. This script return specifies the number of legislation documents generated on any single day. The script is hosted on github. This script was origionally written for Rod Dickinson for his 2016 Outlier Detection project

Acts of parliment

An Act of Parliament creates a new law or changes an existing law. An Act is a Bill approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and formally agreed to by the reigning monarch (known as Royal Assent). Once implemented, an Act is law and applies to the UK as a whole or to specific areas of the country. From: http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/acts

Usage

Download and run an example which saves the latest legislation to the database:

$ ./run.py

run.py also outputs some example search queries:

Published Legislation Dec 15 2015: 10
Updated Legislation Dec 15 2015: 13

Published Legislation 2014: 16445
Published Legislation 2013: 12124

Published legislation from 1st Dec to 15th Dec 2015:131
Published legislation from 1st Dec to 15th Dec 2014:175
Published legislation from 1st Dec to 15th Dec 2013:158

Published legislation 15th Dec 2015:10
Published legislation 15th Dec 2014:21
Published legislation 15th Dec 2013:0
Published legislation 15th Dec 2012:0
Published legislation 15th Dec 2011:17
Published legislation 15th Dec 2010:26
Published legislation 15th Dec 2009:25
Published legislation 15th Dec 2008:15
Published legislation 15th Dec 2007:1
Published legislation 15th Dec 2006:4
Published legislation 15th Dec 2005:8