Hong Kong legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 54,609+ Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation and gazette notices from Hong Kong's official e-Legislation database, in both authentic English and Chinese texts. Search Hong Kong legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Hong Kong ordinance governs the protection of personal data?
The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486), originally enacted as Ordinance 81 of 1995.
Source: Department of Justice, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government — https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/1995/81!en-zh-Hant-HK
Retrieved: 2026-09-04 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Hong Kong sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Hong Kong legal materials from the Hong Kong e-Legislation database, the official statute law database maintained by the Department of Justice. 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: the official statute law database (Ordinances and subsidiary legislation) and gazette-published legal notices, in both authentic English and Chinese texts
- Hong Kong e-Legislation — English (elegislation.gov.hk)
- Hong Kong e-Legislation — Chinese (elegislation.gov.hk)
- Department of Justice, Hong Kong SAR Government
- Laws of Hong Kong (Cap. index)
- Government of the HKSAR Gazette (via e-Legislation legal notices)
Hong Kong legal source types covered
Hong Kong legal coverage currently centres on primary and subsidiary legislation from the official e-Legislation database, with regulatory, legislative-history, and case-law materials added where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Ordinances (the primary Laws of Hong Kong, cited by Cap. number) and their subsidiary legislation — Regulations, Rules, Orders, By-laws and Notices — taken directly from the official e-Legislation database (elegislation.gov.hk) in both authentic English and Chinese versions.
Legislative History
Commencement notices, amendment records, and point-in-time versions of Ordinances as published on e-Legislation, version by version where available, each tied to its official source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Statutory instruments and legal notices issued under Ordinances and published through the Gazette on e-Legislation. Standalone regulator guidance from bodies such as the PCPD, HKMA, and SFC is not yet part of Hong Kong coverage and can be prioritized on request.
Case Law
Judgments of the Hong Kong Judiciary — the Court of Final Appeal, High Court, and District Court — are not yet part of Hong Kong coverage; current coverage is legislation from e-Legislation. Case law can be prioritized for Team and Enterprise customers on request.
One Hong Kong legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation, and gazette notices 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.
GET /v2/contents?iso=HK&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Hong Kong legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Hong Kong materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong 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 can do with Hong Kong 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
- Work with both authentic English and Chinese texts of Ordinances and subsidiary legislation
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Hong Kong legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Hong Kong law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Hong Kong sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
Why Lawstronaut for Hong Kong legal research
Hong Kong legal information lives across the official e-Legislation statute database, the Government Gazette, and — for case law — the Judiciary's own systems, in two authentic languages. For humans, that means slow research across bilingual, cross-referenced sources. 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 Hong Kong legal coverage
Hong Kong is a common-law jurisdiction operating under the 'one country, two systems' framework, with the Basic Law as its constitutional instrument. Its statute law — the Laws of Hong Kong, cited by chapter (Cap.) number — is enacted by the Legislative Council and published, together with subsidiary legislation and gazette legal notices, in the official e-Legislation database at elegislation.gov.hk. Both the English and Chinese texts are authentic. Lawstronaut's current Hong Kong coverage is drawn from this e-Legislation database; Judiciary case law and standalone regulator guidance are not yet included and can be requested.
Hong Kong law changes continuously: Ordinances are amended and commenced through a steady flow of gazette notices, and e-Legislation maintains verified point-in-time versions of each instrument. Recent legislative activity — from national security legislation to financial-services and data reforms — makes point-in-time data straight from the official source essential to keeping a Hong Kong legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Hong Kong legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation, and gazette updates across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Hong Kong legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Hong Kong legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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