Sri Lanka legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Sri Lankan laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Government Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Justice's LawNet, Parliament, 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 Sri Lanka coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Sri Lankan law establishes a comprehensive personal data protection framework?
The Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022 is Sri Lanka's first comprehensive data protection statute; it establishes the Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka and was passed by Parliament and published in the Government Gazette.
Source: Parliament of Sri Lanka — parliament.lk (Act published in the Government Gazette by the Department of Government Printing)
Illustrative — Sri Lanka coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Sri Lankan sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Sri Lankan legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Sri Lanka 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 · the Government Gazette and Government Publications · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · Parliament
- The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Department of Government Printing)
- LawNet — Ministry of Justice (lawnet.gov.lk)
- Parliament of Sri Lanka (parliament.lk)
- Legal Draftsman's Department
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL)
- Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC)
- Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL)
- Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI)
- Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan legal source types we structure
Sri Lankan 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, Ordinances, and subsidiary legislation — regulations, rules, orders, and by-laws — together with Extraordinary Gazette notifications, taken directly from the Government Gazette and official publications.
Legislative History
Bills, order papers, Hansard, and committee materials from the Parliament of Sri Lanka, along with drafts from the Legal Draftsman's Department where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Directions, circulars, determinations, and enforcement materials from Sri Lankan regulators such as the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, and the Data Protection Authority.
Case Law
Court decisions from official Sri Lankan sources, including the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and the High Courts, where available.
One Sri Lankan legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Sri Lankan 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. Sri Lanka coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=LK&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Sri Lankan legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Sri Lankan 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 Sri Lankan 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 Sri Lankan 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 Sri Lankan 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 Sri Lankan legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Sri Lankan law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Sri Lankan sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Sri Lankan legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Sri Lankan legal research
Sri Lankan legal information is spread across the Government Gazette, the Ministry of Justice's LawNet, Parliament, ministries, statutory regulators, and the courts — and published across three languages. 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 Sri Lanka legal coverage
Sri Lanka is a mixed-law jurisdiction: Roman-Dutch law forms the residual common law for areas such as property and obligations, English common law shapes commercial and criminal law, and personal laws — Kandyan law, Thesawalamai, and Muslim law — apply to particular communities, all overlaid by a large body of statute. Primary legislation is made by the unicameral Parliament of Sri Lanka as Acts, published in the Government Gazette by the Department of Government Printing and consolidated through the Ministry of Justice's LawNet. The court structure runs from the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal down through the High Courts, District Courts, and Magistrate's Courts, while regulators such as the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission issue binding directions. Legal materials are published in Sinhala, Tamil, and English.
Sri Lankan law is changing rapidly: the 21st Amendment to the Constitution (2022) reworked executive and parliamentary powers, the Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022 introduced a comprehensive data-protection regime with a phased commencement, and recent statutes such as the Anti-Corruption Act, No. 9 of 2023 and the Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024 have reshaped governance and digital regulation — so citations to superseded provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Sri Lanka legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Sri Lankan legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Sri Lankan regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Sri Lankan legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Sri Lankan legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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