# Maxwell x402 – Australian Federal Legislation Lookup

> Maxwell x402 – Australian Federal Legislation Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.maxwellinternational.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Search Australian federal legislation by title or fetch a specific Act by its official ID, returning title, in-force status, dates, and an official link from the Federal Register of Legislation.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.maxwellinternational.ai/v1/gov/au/legislation?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/maxwell-x402-australian-federal-legislation-lookup-1b709b9a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_swDBh3C5QxSNuNE0hoa8a

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability maxwell-x402-australian-federal-legislation-lookup-1b709b9a
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Privacy Act 1988 from the Australian Federal Register of Legislation and tell me its official ID, whether it's currently in force, and a link to the official text?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative metadata for Australian Commonwealth (federal) legislation — title, in-force status, dates, and the official link — sourced directly from the Federal Register of Legislation. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, machine-readable legal data with an official source and CC BY 4.0 licence. Not suitable for state/territory laws or case law.

## Known failure modes

- 404 returned when the requested Act ID or search term is not yet cached — no charge applies, but the data will be fetched and available within ~1 minute
- Legislation not found if the ID or title is misspelled or does not correspond to a real Commonwealth Act
- Results may be slightly delayed for newly enacted or recently amended legislation not yet indexed
- Search results are limited to federal legislation; state/territory laws are not covered

## How this service works

Laws of Australia from the Federal Register of Legislation: search by title, or fetch one act by its official id, with title, in-force status, dates and the official link. An id or search not yet cached answers 404, not charged, and is fetched within about a minute.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the Act's official ID, title, country code, in-force status, relevant dates, source name and licence (CC BY 4.0, Commonwealth of Australia), a direct official link, and a boolean indicating whether the record was found in cache or newly fetched. A 404 is returned (without charge) for IDs or queries not yet cached, with the data fetched within approximately one minute.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cc": "au",
  "id": "C2004A00748",
  "ok": true,
  "sku": "gov.au.legislation",
  "type": "Act",
  "found": true,
  "title": "Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000",
  "family": "legislation",
  "source": "Federal Register of Legislation (Office of Parliamentary Counsel) API",
  "country": "Australia",
  "sourceClass": "official-api",
  "sourceLicence": {
   "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/copyright",
   "name": "CC BY 4.0 (? Commonwealth of Australia)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/maxwell-x402-australian-federal-legislation-lookup-1b709b9a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.maxwellinternational.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.maxwellinternational.ai/llms.txt)