Benin legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Beninese laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Journal Officiel de la République du Bénin (JORB) published by the Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, government ministries, regulators, and the courts. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured Benin coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Beninese law establishes the Labour Code governing individual and collective labour relations?
Law No. 98-004 of 27 January 1998 establishing the Labour Code (Code du travail) is the framework statute for individual and collective labour relations in Benin, published in the Journal Officiel de la République du Bénin.
Source: Journal Officiel de la République du Bénin (JORB), Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement — sgg.gouv.bj
Illustrative — Benin coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Beninese sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Beninese legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Benin coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: legislation portals · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · public legal information repositories · gazette and publication sources
- Journal Officiel de la République du Bénin (JORB)
- Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement (SGG)
- Ministère de la Justice et de la Législation
- Assemblée Nationale
- Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (APDP)
- Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et de la Poste (ARCEP Bénin)
- Autorité de Régulation des Marchés Publics (ARMP)
- Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO)
- Cour Suprême
- Cour Constitutionnelle
- Cour de Répression des Infractions Économiques et du Terrorisme (CRIET)
Beninese legal source types we structure
Beninese legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (lois), ordinances (ordonnances), decrees (décrets), and ministerial orders (arrêtés), together with OHADA Uniform Acts and WAEMU (UEMOA) regulations that apply directly in Benin, taken from the Journal Officiel and official publications.
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the Assemblée Nationale where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Deliberations, decisions, guidelines, and enforcement materials from Beninese regulators such as the APDP, ARCEP Bénin, the ARMP, and the BCEAO.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Beninese sources, including the Cour Suprême, the Cour Constitutionnelle, and the CRIET, where available.
One Beninese legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Beninese laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. Benin coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=BJ&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Beninese legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Beninese materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Beninese legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Beninese legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with Beninese legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Beninese legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Beninese law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Beninese sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Beninese legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Beninese legal research
Beninese legal information is spread across the national gazette, ministries, statutory agencies, regulators, courts, and supranational OHADA and WAEMU sources. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Benin legal coverage
Benin is a civil-law jurisdiction rooted in French legal tradition, with a unified national legal system layered over the supranational law of OHADA (business and commercial law) and WAEMU/UEMOA (monetary, banking, and economic regulation). Primary legislation is enacted by the Assemblée Nationale and the President and published in the Journal Officiel de la République du Bénin by the Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, while regulatory policy sits across ministries and statutory agencies — the APDP, ARCEP Bénin, the ARMP, and the regional central bank BCEAO. Case law spans the Cour Suprême, the Cour Constitutionnelle, and the specialized Cour de Répression des Infractions Économiques et du Terrorisme (CRIET). Legal materials are published primarily in French.
Beninese law has moved quickly in recent years: the Constitution of 11 December 1990 was revised by Law No. 2019-40 of 7 November 2019, the Digital Code (Law No. 2017-20 of 20 April 2018) consolidated telecommunications and personal-data rules, and OHADA Uniform Acts continue to update core commercial law — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Benin legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Beninese legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Beninese regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Beninese legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Beninese legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Beninese sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Benin legal data.