@pipeworx/hk-elegislation

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Tools: 4

Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation and instruments — full text in English and Traditional Chinese, both original and equally authentic — searchable by title, resolvable by exact Cap. (chapter) citation, and readable one section at a time.

Tools

• hk_law_search(query, limit?) — find a law by title keyword, English or Traditional Chinese (“Personal Data”, “個人資料”, “Companies Ordinance”), or by a bare chapter number (“486”).
• hk_law_info(cap?, title?) — a law’s full metadata: English and Chinese titles, in-force status, the version date of the English text and of the Chinese text as SEPARATE fields, and whether it is a principal Ordinance, subsidiary legislation, or an instrument.
• hk_law_toc(cap?, title?, offset?, limit?) — a law’s section numbers and headings, paged.
• hk_law_section(cap?, title?, section) — one section’s full text, English AND Traditional Chinese side by side, plus its in-force status and version-valid-from date.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• Hong Kong Department of Justice, e-Legislation — the current-version text of every Ordinance, subsidiary legislation instrument and other instrument, in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, published as bulk archives on DATA.GOV.HK (organisation “hk-doj”).

The interactive e-Legislation website gates every page behind a JavaScript client-capability check that a plain HTTP client cannot pass (verified 2026-10-16) and the DATA.GOV.HK catalog offers only whole-range bulk downloads — there is no per-chapter or per-section live route. Per Bruce’s 2026-09-23 local-copy ruling, this pack reads from a D1 copy loaded by scripts/hk-elegislation/load-data.mjs (English and Traditional Chinese; Simplified Chinese is also published by the source but not loaded in this first pass), refreshed by re-running that script. data_as_of on every response is when that load last ran.

Licence: DATA.GOV.HK’s own Terms of Use grant free browsing, download, distribution and reproduction of the Data for commercial or non-commercial purposes, conditioned on identifying the source and acknowledging the HKSAR Government’s ownership of the underlying IP — an explicit reuse grant, not merely a live-proxy allowance. Every response carries source. Only a PDF marked “Verified Copy” from the e-Legislation website itself is presumed legally accurate as at its stated date (Legislation Publication Ordinance, Cap. 614 s.5); this pack, like the live site’s own non-PDF views, is provided for information.

Both languages are original — neither is a “translation”

Under the Official Languages Ordinance (Cap. 5) s.4B, the English and Chinese texts of a Hong Kong Ordinance are equally authentic — this pack never labels one a translation of the other. hk_law_section returns both side by side, each carrying its own version-valid-from date, because one language’s text can be consolidated ahead of the other after an amendment.

Notes

• hk_law_search is a TITLE search — it will not find a law by a phrase that appears only inside a section’s text.
• hk_law_section answers BODY-section citations (“section 2”). A Schedule’s own numbered provisions (e.g. PDPO Schedule 1’s “section 1”, the Data Protection Principles) restart their own numbering and are not yet separately retrievable — a known gap, not a silent collision: the loader explicitly excludes schedule/annex content from section matching so a schedule’s “section 1” can never be confused with the body’s section 1.
• A long section is returned as the section’s own full text, which can itself be long for a definitions section (e.g. Cap. 486 s.2); hk_law_toc is how to browse a law’s structure before reading one section at a time, and the whole law is never returned in one call.
• Subsidiary legislation is addressed with a letter suffix on the chapter number (“486A”), matching the source’s own citation convention.

Tools

• hk_law_search — Find a Hong Kong law by title (English or Traditional Chinese) or Cap. number.
• hk_law_info — One Hong Kong law’s metadata: titles, in-force status, per-language version dates.
• hk_law_toc — A Hong Kong law’s section numbers and headings, paged.
• hk_law_section — One section of a Hong Kong law, English and Traditional Chinese side by side.