# legislationType - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/legislationType
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:48:30.723Z

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-   Canonical URL: https://schema.org/legislationType
-   Equivalent Property: eli:type\_document
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The type of the legislation. Examples of values are "law", "act", "directive", "decree", "regulation", "statutory instrument", "loi organique", "règlement grand-ducal", etc., depending on the country.

### 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)