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Legal Documents of Sri Lanka

What is this?

This data repository serves as a comprehensive digital archive for various legal documents of Sri Lanka. It is a valuable resource for legal professionals, researchers, students, and anyone interested in the legal framework of Sri Lanka.

The documents have been sourced from the Website of the Department of Government Printing, which publishes various types of Legal Documents.

What types of documents does the repo contain?

This data repository contains the following types of documents:

  • The original legal documents as PDFs.
  • The extracted raw text from the PDFs.
  • Convert PDFs into MS Word DocX format.
  • 🚧 The legal document as structure data with chapters, sections, schedules etc.
  • 🚧 Layperson's summary of the legal document (Generated by AI🤖).
  • 🚧 A dependency tree of documents connecting them to dependent documents (e.g. An act and its Bill, or an amendment and the original act it amends).

(🚧 = Work in Progress)

How can I access this data?