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Our Legislation Commons contains African legislation under a Creative Commons license.

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Legislation Commons

High-quality, up-to-date African legislation in HTML, PDF and Akoma Ntoso XML. Creative commons licensed.
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Namibian National Legislation
423
Principal Acts
1240
Amendments & Commencements
31 March 2021
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NamibLII.org
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South African Municipal By-laws
22
Municipalities
420
By-laws
26 March 2021
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OpenByLaws.org.za
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COVID-19 Regulations
A special collection of COVID-19 regulations for African countries.
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Countries
308
Regulations
AfricanLII.org
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Nigerian National Legislation
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Call for board member nominations
11 Feb 2021 by Greg Kempe

Laws.Africa invites nominations for appointment to the non-executive advisory board of Laws.Africa.

Do you trust legislation that you find on the Internet?
12 Jun 2020 by Greg Kempe

How readers determine if laws they find online are trustworthy and up to date.

Laws can be messy, but they don't have to be
12 Jun 2020 by Mariya Badeva-Bright

The Laws.Africa platform enforces quality of legislation consolidation by incorporating provenance, verification and strict reliance on the government gazette as the source of public record.

Kannaland municipal by-laws are now available on openbylaws.org.za
6 Apr 2020 by Greg Kempe

The by-laws for Kannaland municipality are now available on openbylaws.org.za.

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Use machine-friendly legislation and metadata to build apps and services that make it easier for users to find, work with and understand African legislation.

The Laws.Africa legislation commons is available as structured, machine-friendly Akoma Ntoso XML through the Laws.Africa Content API.

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Indigo simplifies online and print publishing, record keeping and research by treating legislation as data.

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