We provide both dynamically generated PDFs of legislation content, and static PDFs of certain documents.
Any item of legislation or subdivision of it that you can get as XML or HTML is also available as a dynamically generated PDF. To get an item or subdivision of legislation as PDF, append /data.pdf to a version URI.
The API dynamically generates a PDF the first time a user requests a PDF representation of a given resource, and then caches the generated PDF, which is returned instantly upon subsequent requests. If the PDF is not yet in the cache, the API will return a 202 Accepted response, and you should repeat the request every 10 seconds or so until it returns a 200 OK response containing the PDF (see the API documentation on response codes).
For example, you can get the current version of the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 as PDF at the following URI:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/12/data.pdf
You can get the version of Part 4 of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Regulations 2016 as it stood on 1/5/2017 at the following URI:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/397/part/4/2017-05-01/data.pdf
We also provide dynamically generated PDFs of the enacted, made or adopted version of an item or subdivision of legislation. You can get the enacted Welsh version of the cross-heading “Cyffredinol” of Part 3 of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 at:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2015/4/part/3/crossheading/cyffredinol/enacted/welsh/data.pdf
However, if you want an entire enacted, made or adopted version of a whole item of legislation, you may find that there is already a higher quality static PDF of the enacted/made/adopted version.
Some other documents are available as “static” PDFs. These are:
These documents do not follow a standardised URI scheme. You can find their URIs linked in the metadata of the document to which they are associated. The CLML user guide describes how to identify associated documents in metadata.