---
pretty_name: Hong Kong Ordinances (e-Legislation / Department of Justice)
license: other
license_name: hk-doj-elegislation-terms
language:
- en
- zh
language_bcp47:
- en
- zh-Hant
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
tags:
- legal
- law
- hong-kong
- elegislation
- official-texts
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
configs:
- config_name: laws
  data_files: data/laws.parquet
  default: true
- config_name: articles
  data_files: data/articles.parquet
---

# Hong Kong Ordinances (e-Legislation / Department of Justice)

Research snapshot of official national legislation from **Hong Kong e-Legislation (Department of Justice) PSI XML**.

**Not legal advice.** The official gazette / authentic source prevails over this corpus.

## Snapshot

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Snapshot date | 2026-09-03 |
| Coverage | snapshot |
| Source | Hong Kong e-Legislation (Department of Justice) PSI XML |
| Collector | `scrapers/collect_hk.py` |
| Laws / instruments | 1,678 |
| Articles | 86,041 |
| Language | en, zh-Hant |
| Jurisdiction | Hong Kong |
| License | `hk-doj-elegislation-terms` |

## Contents

- `data/laws.parquet` — one row per instrument.
- `data/articles.parquet` — article/section rows for the same snapshot.
- `scrapers/collect_hk.py` — research collector used to build this snapshot.

## License / reuse

HKSAR official texts / DoJ terms. Authentic e-Legislation prevails. Not legal advice.

This dataset is **not legal advice**. The official source prevails.

## Source

- https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/

## Known gaps

Current-version Ordinances only (not subsidiary caps). Bilingual EN/zh-Hant. Official PSI XML zips. No BLIS.