Is legislation.gov.uk legit or a scam?
The official home of UK legislation, managed by The National Archives on behalf of His Majesty’s Government with a 21-year domain history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully-rendered, professional, and legitimate government website for UK legislation with no visual indicators of a scam or phishing attempt.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional government branding including the Royal Coat of Arms
Official 'legislation.gov.uk' domain name matches the site content
Standard navigation for UK, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland legislative bodies
Functional search interface with advanced filtering options
Clear attribution to The National Archives
Absence of urgency tactics, fake badges, or intrusive pop-ups
MT Intelligence
This domain is the authoritative source for United Kingdom law, managed directly by The National Archives. Our analysis confirms it has been registered for over 7,700 days, which is consistent with a long-standing government institution. The site loads resources from verified government infrastructure, including parliament.uk and nationalarchives.gov.uk. Every antivirus engine in our network identifies the site as clean. There are no signs of phishing, data harvesting, or fraudulent activity.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for legislation.gov.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- legislation.gov.uk is the official UK government website for all primary and secondary legislation from 1267 to present, managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government.
- It was formerly the UK Statute Law Database; public launch in December 2006, transferred to National Archives in 2008.
- The National Archives is a non-ministerial department responsible for Crown copyright via HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office, founded 1786).
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or negative reviews found across web searches, Reddit, or review sites.
- Site provides both 'as enacted' and revised versions of legislation; over 99% of Acts are up to date.
- Contact for website feedback: legislation@nationalarchives.gov.uk; explicitly states it does not provide legal advice or interpretation.
- Domain age of ~7721 days (~21 years) aligns with official government .gov.uk ecosystem and long-standing public service since mid-2000s.
- Wikipediaopen
"legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives."
- The National Archives / legislation.gov.uk about pageopen
"This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives."
- Civil Service Quarterly (blog.gov.uk)open
"The National Archives manages Legislation.gov.uk, the official home of UK legislation."
Official UK government site managed by The National Archives (non-ministerial department of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport). HMSO (part of The National Archives) holds Crown copyright and publishes under authority of the King's Printer.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://legislation.gov.uk/
- 2301https://legislation.gov.uk/
- 3200https://www.legislation.gov.uk/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on legislation.gov.uk and not a lookalike like l-egislation.gov.uk.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on legislation.gov.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- legislation.gov.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. legislation.gov.uk presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 130 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- legislation.gov.uk is 21.2 years old, registered on 5/9/2005 through The Stationery Office Ltd. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report legislation.gov.uk as clean.
- No. legislation.gov.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- legislation.gov.uk resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services UK in GB (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. legislation.gov.uk sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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