---
title: "Verbatim text of an article in force on a given date"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/normativa/articulo"
tags: ["Legislation"]
---

# Verbatim text of an article in force on a given date

`GET /api/v1/normativa/articulo`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://legal.nexusquantum.legal`
- URL: `https://legal.nexusquantum.legal/api/v1/normativa/articulo`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Returns the verbatim text of an article of legislation in force on the requested date. Supports verbatim quotation and point-in-time lookups as of the date of the facts. **How an instrument is named depends on the jurisdiction, and `norma` is validated accordingly.** Spain: the BOE id (`BOE-A-1889-4763`); indexed 100% (national BOE + 17 autonomous communities, 1851→2026). United Kingdom: the short title as it is cited (`Companies Act 2006`, `The Working Time Regulations 1998`) or the instrument id (`ukpga_2006_46`, `uksi_1998_1833`); 695,446 provisions of Acts and Statutory Instruments. Jurisdictions without an indexed corpus return 200 with `data: null` + an explanatory `note`.

## Query parameters

- `norma` string, required
- `articulo` string, required
- `date` string, date
- `fecha` string, date
- `jurisdiction` string
- `jurisdiccion` string

## Response `200`

Article found, or `data: null` + `note` when we do not hold it. `consultado_a_fecha` is the date you asked about; `vigente_a_fecha` carries a date only where the lookup is bounded by it (Spain) and is `null` otherwise — the United Kingdom register does not publish status in a way that allows it, so `vigencia_status` and `status_evidence` travel instead. A United Kingdom provision number that matches more than one provision of the instrument comes back as `razon: "ambiguo"` listing the candidates: 8,396 keys in that corpus match more than one article, and picking the first would be a coin toss dressed as precision.

## Other responses

- `400`: MISSING_JURISDICTION (`jurisdiction`/`jurisdiccion` alias required — no default) | VALIDATION_ERROR.
- `402`: INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS — paywall from minute one (balance > 0 required; the lookup does not consume credits).
- `403`: CONTENT_NOT_ENTITLED — the account does not have the legislation add-on (Layer 3) for the requested jurisdiction.

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