Glossary
Terms as Advisor uses them in its documentation and in the payloads its tools return.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Act | A law made by the Parliament |
| Anchor | Advisor's record of where a provision's text was found in the authorised PDF and whether its characters matched. See get_provision_text |
as_at | A date parameter asking for the text in force on that date. Advisor holds one compilation of each title's text; a date outside it returns VERSION_NOT_HELD |
| Authorised PDF | The version of a title the Federal Register publishes as authorised under the Legislation Act 2003. Advisor checks its text against it |
| Client | One workload or environment of a partner organisation. Keys, scopes and rate limits belong to a client |
| Compilation | The Federal Register's consolidated text of a title at a point in time, incorporating its amendments, with its own register id |
| Compilation number | The number printed on a compilation's cover. Recorded where the Federal Register assigns one |
confirmed_with_frl_at | When Advisor last confirmed a title's status with the Federal Register |
| eId | A provision's identifier within its compilation, for example sec_13K, following the Akoma Ntoso naming scheme |
| Federal Register | The Federal Register of Legislation, legislation.gov.au: the authoritative source of Commonwealth law |
| Hansard | The record of the debates of the Parliament |
| In force | Recorded as in force by the Federal Register, no repeal date passed, and not past an unconfirmed sunset date. See Data currency and status |
| Legislative instrument | Law made under the authority of an Act, such as regulations, rules and determinations |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol: the open protocol AI clients use to call tools such as Advisor's |
| Notifiable instrument | An instrument registered on the Federal Register that is not legislative, such as a commencement notice |
| Partner | An organisation calling Advisor with an API key, with no person present |
| Provision | A unit of a title's text: a section, subsection, paragraph, definition or schedule item |
| Register id | The Federal Register's identifier for one registered document, for example C2026C00227. A new compilation receives a new register id |
| Scope | A permission held by a partner client, such as legislation:read. A scope can only limit what a key may do |
| Subscriber | A person with an Advisor account who connects by signing in |
| Title | One piece of legislation on the Federal Register, across all its compilations, for example the Privacy Act 1988 |