# Legal Authority - PSC API

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/legal-authority-psc-api/4996>\
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**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/legal-authority-psc-api/4996 "2022-04-04T17:28:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![fiona.chapman](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fiona.chapman](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/fiona.chapman)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/legal-authority-psc-api/4996/1 "2022-04-04T17:28:44Z")

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does anyone have the list of values that is likely to be returned in the PSC API - Legal\_Authority field

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**Author:** ![ash](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ash](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ash)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 9:07am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/legal-authority-psc-api/4996/2 "2022-04-05T09:07:32Z")

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This and a couple of other similar values for identifying foreign entities are unvalidated, free-text fields so there aren’t any enumerations/lists. I think they’re all just strings between 1 and 160 cahracters.

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**Author:** ![voracityemail](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b77776/32.png) [@voracityemail](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/voracityemail)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 10:27am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/legal-authority-psc-api/4996/3 "2022-04-05T10:27:22Z")

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As @ash ash says - but if you just wanted to see what you might get you can process [the bulk PSC data](http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_pscdata.html) to see what values are there. You’ll need a stream processor of some kind as the files are large!