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Open datasets

The structured layer of this site, downloadable. Statutory text is Parliament’s; the structure, the slugs, the cross-reference graph and the editorial matter are ours, and we are releasing them under CC BY 4.0.

  1. Acts, Central and State

    One row per Act: short title, Act number, year, enactment and commencement dates, jurisdiction, administering Ministry and section count.

    2,246 rows

    acts.csv

  2. Section index

    One row per section: Act, section number, marginal note, word count and canonical URL. Text itself is not in the index; fetch it per section from the API.

    77,072 rows

    sections.csv

  3. IPC to BNS, CrPC to BNSS, Evidence Act to BSA

    Every provision of the three repealed codes against the closest provision of the code that replaced it, with the similarity score and the confidence band. Computed, not official: see the note on the converter pages.

    2,372 rows

    mapping.csv

  4. Cross-reference graph

    The statutory citation graph, extracted from operative text. Source section to destination section, both sides resolvable.

    45,967 edges

    xrefs.csv

  5. Rules

    Every set of Rules India Code holds, Central and State, joined to the Act it was made under. Metadata only: the source publishes Rules as documents, not as text.

    35,622 rows

    rules.csv

  6. Subject classification

    Which Acts sit under which subject, from the rules-based classifier. Useful mainly as a starting point for a better one.

    1,345 rows

    subjects.csv

  7. Repealed Acts

    Repealed Central Acts with the repealing instrument parsed out of the recorded title.

    4,513 rows

    repeals.csv

  8. Ordinances

    Central Ordinances under Article 123, by year.

    658 rows

    ordinances.csv

Terms

Licence. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Attribute to IndiaCode by eCourtsIndia with a link to https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com.

Statutory text. The text of the enactments is the text of Parliament and carries no copyright of ours. It is republished here together with commentary and other original matter, which is the condition section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957 attaches to reproducing an Act of a Legislature.

Accuracy. These files are generated from our corpus, which is itself compiled from India Code. They are offered as a convenience and are not the authoritative text. For that, consult the Gazette of India.

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Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament as published by the Government of India, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.