Chad legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Chadian laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad (JORT), 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 Chad coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Chadian law establishes the framework for individual and collective labour relations?
Law No. 038/PR/96 of 11 December 1996 establishing the Labour Code (Code du travail), as amended, is the framework statute governing individual and collective labour relations in Chad, published in the Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad (JORT).
Source: Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad (JORT) — Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement
Illustrative — Chad coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Chadian sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Chadian legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Chad 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 · regional bodies (OHADA, CEMAC) · regulators · courts and tribunals · gazette and publication sources
- Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad (JORT)
- Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement (SGG)
- Ministère de la Justice
- Assemblée Nationale
- Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale (BEAC)
- Commission Bancaire de l'Afrique Centrale (COBAC)
- Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP)
- OHADA (Uniform Acts on business law)
- CEMAC (Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale)
- Cour Suprême
- Conseil Constitutionnel
Chadian legal source types we structure
Chadian 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 CEMAC community texts that apply directly in Chad, taken from the Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad and official publications.
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the Assemblée Nationale and the transitional legislative bodies where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidelines, notices, circulars, decisions, and enforcement materials from Chadian and regional regulators such as the BEAC, COBAC, and ARCEP.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Chadian sources, including Cour Suprême and Conseil Constitutionnel decisions where available.
One Chadian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Chadian 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. Chad coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=TD&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Chadian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Chadian 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 Chadian 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 Chadian 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 Chadian 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 Chadian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Chadian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Chadian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Chadian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Chadian legal research
Chadian legal information is spread across legislation portals, the Journal Officiel, ministries, regional bodies such as OHADA and CEMAC, regulators, courts, and publication 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 Chad legal coverage
Chad is a civil-law jurisdiction rooted in the French legal tradition, layered with customary law and, in matters of personal status, Islamic law. Primary legislation is published in the Journal Officiel de la République du Tchad (JORT) by the Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, while regulatory policy sits across ministries and statutory agencies. As a member of OHADA, Chad applies the OHADA Uniform Acts directly for business and commercial law, and as a member of CEMAC it is bound by community texts and the regional central bank, the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale (BEAC). Case law spans the Cour Suprême, the Conseil Constitutionnel, and lower courts and tribunals. Legal materials are published in French and Arabic, the country's two official languages.
Chadian law is in a period of rapid change: a new Constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2023 and promulgated in 2024, reshaping the institutional framework after the political transition, with legislative elections following in December 2024 — so citations to superseded constitutional and institutional provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Chad legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Chadian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Chadian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Chadian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Chadian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Chadian sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Chadian legal data.