Vanuatu legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Vanuatu laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Vanuatu Official Gazette, the Parliament of Vanuatu, the State Law Office, financial-services 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 Vanuatu coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Vanuatu law sets out the basic framework for contracts of employment?
The Employment Act [CAP 160], as amended, is the principal statute governing contracts of employment, wages, hours, leave, and termination in Vanuatu. It is consolidated in the Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu and published through the State Law Office and the Vanuatu Official Gazette.
Source: Government of Vanuatu — State Law Office / Vanuatu Official Gazette — gov.vu
Illustrative — Vanuatu coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Vanuatu sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Vanuatu legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Vanuatu 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 and consolidated laws · government ministries and agencies · financial-services and utilities regulators · courts and tribunals · gazette and publication sources
- Vanuatu Official Gazette
- Parliament of Vanuatu
- State Law Office (Office of the Attorney General)
- Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC)
- Vanuatu Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
- Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator (TRBR)
- Utilities Regulatory Authority (URA)
- Supreme Court of Vanuatu
- Court of Appeal of Vanuatu
Vanuatu legal source types we structure
Vanuatu legal coverage will include primary legislation, subsidiary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Acts of Parliament and subsidiary legislation (regulations, orders, and rules), consolidated as Chapters (CAP) in the Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu, taken directly from the Vanuatu Official Gazette and the State Law Office.
Legislative History
Bills, amendment records, and parliamentary materials from the Parliament of Vanuatu where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Licences, guidelines, circulars, notices, and enforcement materials from Vanuatu regulators such as the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu, the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission, the Financial Intelligence Unit, the TRBR, and the Utilities Regulatory Authority.
Case Law
Court decisions from official and authoritative Vanuatu sources, including the Supreme Court of Vanuatu and the Court of Appeal of Vanuatu, where available.
One Vanuatu legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Vanuatu 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. Vanuatu coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=VU&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Vanuatu legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Vanuatu law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Vanuatu sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Vanuatu legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Vanuatu legal research
Vanuatu legal information is spread across consolidated laws, the Official Gazette, Parliament, the State Law Office, financial-services and utilities 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 Vanuatu legal coverage
Vanuatu is a mixed-law jurisdiction shaped by its history as the Anglo-French New Hebrides Condominium: English common law and equity, French-influenced civil law, and customary law (kastom) all operate under the supreme Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu (1980). Primary legislation is enacted by the unicameral Parliament of Vanuatu, published in the Vanuatu Official Gazette, and consolidated as numbered Chapters (CAP) in the Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu maintained by the State Law Office. The court hierarchy runs from the Magistrates' and Island Courts up through the Supreme Court of Vanuatu to the Court of Appeal. English, French, and Bislama are the official languages, and legislation is published primarily in English and French.
Vanuatu law changes at pace, especially in financial services and governance: the Companies Act No. 25 of 2012 modernised the company-law framework, successive AML/CFT and financial-services reforms have responded to FATF and international-tax scrutiny of Vanuatu as an offshore centre, and the 2022 constitutional amendments on political stability reshaped rules on parliamentary membership — so citations to outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Vanuatu legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Vanuatu legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Vanuatu regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Vanuatu legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Vanuatu legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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