# legislationDateVersion - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/legislationDateVersion
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:48:25.242Z

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-   Canonical URL: https://schema.org/legislationDateVersion
-   Equivalent Property: eli:version\_date
-   [Check for open issues.](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+legislationDateVersion)

The point-in-time at which the provided description of the legislation is valid (e.g.: when looking at the law on the 2016-04-07 (= dateVersion), I get the consolidation of 2015-04-12 of the "National Insurance Contributions Act 2015")

### Values expected to be one of these types

`-   [Date](https://schema.org/Date "Date")`

### Acknowledgements

This entry is derived from the [ELI ontology](http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/eli/index.html) (European Legislation Identifier). ELI is an initiative of some national legislation publishers endorsed by EU countries and Institutions, to identify, describe and link legislation on the web, and is led by the [ELI taskforce](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli-register/about.html).

#### Source

[https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156)

[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli](https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli)