# GetBucketAccessControlPolicy (SOAP API)
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**Note**  
 SOAP APIs for Amazon S3 are not available for new customers, and are approaching End of Life (EOL) on October 31, 2025. We recommend that you use either the REST API or the AWS SDKs. 

The `GetBucketAccessControlPolicy` operation fetches the access control policy for a bucket.

**Example**  
This example retrieves the access control policy for the "quotes" bucket.  
`Sample Request`  

```
1. <GetBucketAccessControlPolicy xmlns="http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/2006-03-01">
2.   <Bucket>quotes</Bucket>
3.   <AWSAccessKeyId>AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE</AWSAccessKeyId>
4.   <Timestamp>2006-03-01T12:00:00.183Z</Timestamp>
5.   <Signature>Iuyz3d3P0aTou39dzbqaEXAMPLE=</Signature>
6. </GetBucketAccessControlPolicy>
```
`Sample Response`  

```
 1. <AccessControlPolicy>
 2.   <Owner>
 3.     <ID>a9a7b886d6fd2441bf9b1c61be666e9</ID>
 4.     <DisplayName>chriscustomer</DisplayName>
 5.   </Owner>
 6.   <AccessControlList>
 7.     <Grant>
 8.       <Grantee xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
 9.         <ID>a9a7b886d6f41bf9b1c61be666e9</ID>
10.         <DisplayName>chriscustomer</DisplayName>
11.       </Grantee>
12.       <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
13.     </Grant>
14.     <Grant>
15.       <Grantee xsi:type="Group">
16.         <URI>http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/global/AllUsers<URI>
17.       </Grantee>
18.       <Permission>READ</Permission>
19.     </Grant>
20.   </AccessControlList>
21. <AccessControlPolicy>
```

## Response Body
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The response contains the access control policy for the bucket. For an explanation of this response, see [SOAP Access Policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/SOAPAccessPolicy.html) . 

## Access Control
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You must have `READ_ACP` rights to the bucket in order to retrieve the access control policy for a bucket.