Maldives legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Maldivian laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Government Gazette (gazette.gov.mv), the People's Majlis, the Attorney General's Office, 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 Maldives coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Maldivian law sets out the framework for employment relations?
The Employment Act (Law No. 2/2008), as amended, is the framework statute governing individual and collective employment relations in the Maldives — covering contracts, working hours, leave, and termination — and is published in the Government Gazette.
Source: Attorney General's Office / Government Gazette of the Republic of Maldives — gazette.gov.mv
Illustrative — Maldives coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Maldivian sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Maldivian legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Maldives 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
- Government Gazette of the Republic of Maldives (gazette.gov.mv)
- People's Majlis (Parliament)
- Attorney General's Office
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
- Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA)
- Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA)
- Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA)
- Communications Authority of Maldives (CAM)
- Ministry of Tourism
- Supreme Court of the Maldives
- High Court of the Maldives
- Department of Judicial Administration
Maldivian legal source types we structure
Maldivian legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Acts of Parliament (qaanoon) passed by the People's Majlis, regulations (gavaaid), and presidential decrees, taken directly from the Government Gazette and Attorney General's Office law compilations.
Legislative History
Bills and parliamentary materials from the People's Majlis where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Circulars, notices, guidelines, decisions, and enforcement materials from Maldivian regulators such as the Maldives Monetary Authority, the Capital Market Development Authority, and the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Maldivian sources, including the Supreme Court, the High Court, and the Superior Courts, where available.
One Maldivian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Maldivian 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. Maldives coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=MV&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Maldivian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Maldivian 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 Maldivian 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 Maldivian 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 Maldivian 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 Maldivian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Maldivian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Maldivian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Maldivian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Maldivian legal research
Maldivian legal information is spread across the Government Gazette, the People's Majlis, the Attorney General's Office, ministries, statutory regulators, and the courts. 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 Maldives legal coverage
The Maldives is an Islamic republic with a mixed legal system that combines English common law with Islamic Sharia, the latter applying particularly to family, personal status, and certain criminal matters. The Constitution of the Republic of Maldives 2008 is the supreme law; primary legislation (Acts, qaanoon) is enacted by the People's Majlis and published in the Government Gazette, while the Attorney General's Office maintains consolidated compilations of laws and regulations. The court system runs from the Supreme Court and High Court through the Superior Courts (including the Civil, Criminal, Family, and Drug Courts) to the Magistrate Courts. Financial and market regulation sits with statutory bodies such as the Maldives Monetary Authority, the Capital Market Development Authority, and the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority. Legal materials are published primarily in Dhivehi, with English translations available for many major statutes.
Maldivian law has changed rapidly in recent years: the 2008 Constitution introduced a modern separation of powers, a modern Penal Code came into force in 2015 to replace the earlier criminal framework, and the Income Tax Act (Law No. 25/2019) reshaped taxation from 2020 alongside the earlier Goods and Services Tax Act (Law No. 10/2011) — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Maldives legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Maldivian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Maldivian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Maldivian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Maldivian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Maldivian sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Maldivian legal data.