# Legislation verification
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Verify cited statutes, regulations, directives, rules, and public guidance for currency, accuracy, and proposition support.

Verify cited statutes, regulations, directives, rules, and public guidance for currency, accuracy, and proposition support. Use when a legal document, brief, opinion, contract, or AI-generated output contains citations to legislation and you need to confirm that each provision exists, is currently in force (or was in force at the relevant date), has been correctly cited, has not been repealed or materially amended since citation, applies to the claimed territory, and actually supports the legal proposition advanced. Covers primary legislation (Acts, codes, statutes), secondary and delegated legislation (Statutory Instruments, regulations, orders, decrees), EU legislation (regulations directly applicable, directives requiring transposition), court procedural rules, and regulatory guidance. Flags hallucinated citations, wrong section numbers, uncommenced provisions, territorial scope mismatches, and guidance-cited-as-legislation errors. Jurisdiction-agnostic: covers UK, EU, US federal, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Nordic jurisdictions with explicit [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers. Integrates with legalcode-mcp when connected.

This skill verifies that cited legislation is accurate, current, in force, correctly scoped, and supportive of the proposition advanced. **Covers:** - Citation format correctness (Acts, SIs, EU instruments, CFR, regulations, orders) - In-force and commencement verification (Royal Assent vs. commencement date, staged orders) - Amendment and repeal status (has the provision been amended since cited?) - Territorial scope (does this provision apply where claimed?) - Pinpoint accuracy (does the cited section/article/subsection actually say what is claimed?) - Proposition support (does the cited provision actually support the legal argument?) - Guidance vs. legislation distinction (is non-binding guidance cited as if binding?) - Uncommenced provisions (enacted but not yet in force) - Sunset clauses and temporary legislation (COVID-era measures, emergency powers) - EU directive transposition status (directive obligations vs. national implementing measures) - Post-Brexit REUL/assimilated law status (UK) - International treaty applicability and ratification status **Does not:** - Provide substantive legal analysis or advice on the underlying legal question - Substitute for running live citator checks (Westlaw KeyCite, LexisNexis Shepard's, vLex) - Verify the content of case law citations (see `legalcode-citation-checker`) - Draft legislation or regulatory submissions - Assess the policy merits of a legislative provision This skill is jurisdiction-agnostic. It adapts ...

## Jurisdictions

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