# Getting Started With UK Legislation OKF

[Documentation spine](index.md) · [Personas and journeys](personas-and-user-journeys.md) · [Illustrated manual](illustrated-manual.md) · [Agent guide](agent-research-guide.md) · [Evaluation](evaluation-and-quality.md) · [Maintenance](maintenance.md)

## Open the pack

Use the [hosted Explorer link](https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-explorer/?bundle=https%3A%2F%2Fchris-page-gov.github.io%2Fai-infrastructure-wiki%2Flegislation%2Fokf-explorer.json&view=reader#overview). It opens the corpus overview without hydrating every work or provision.

The overview establishes the corpus boundary: legal-work count, official manifestation count, represented years, document types, categories and current source notices.

## Find legislation

1. Search for an exact title, citation, year or distinctive phrase.
2. Use Category, Document Type, Creation Year and Jurisdiction to reduce ambiguous results.
3. Treat Topic as a discovery aid only; it is inferred from titles.
4. Select the exact work, checking type code, year, number and jurisdiction.
5. Open the official work if the result could be confused with a commencement, amendment or remedial instrument.

Local title search is combined with the official legislation.gov.uk full-text Atom search. Results identify whether they came from the static pack or the live official search.

## Find and cite a provision

1. Open a work's detail card.
2. Review the official identifier, document type, category, year/number, jurisdiction, legal-status note and manifestations.
3. Select **Load every Part, Chapter, section, article and nested provision**.
4. Search within the instrument for a section number or phrase.
5. Use **Selected passage** to open the official pinpoint URL.
6. Use **Copy provenance citation** as the starting point for a citation ledger.
7. Separately check version, commencement, extent, amendments and unapplied effects.

## Minimum evidence for an answer

Every material proposition should record:

- the source title;
- the direct selected-passage URL;
- the text or faithful paraphrase supporting the proposition;
- version or point-in-time context;
- commencement and extent context where material;
- retrieval date;
- any unresolved amendment, interpretation or missing-fact issue.

An Act landing page on its own is not pinpoint provenance. A catalogue result on its own is not the law.

## Next steps

- Follow the [illustrated manual](illustrated-manual.md) for worked journeys.
- Use the [agent research guide](agent-research-guide.md) for automated research.
- Read the [architecture and data model](../uk-legislation-okf.md) for ontology, completeness and API details.
