Laws.Africa maintains national legislation collections and delivers them into your systems as text, HTML, PDF or Akoma Ntoso XML. Choose the country, package, formats and permitted use.
One price per country, per year. No per-call, per-seat or per-document charges, and no overage.
Country licences are added together. There are no volume discounts.
Access, updates and permitted use end on expiry unless your order says otherwise.
For a local corpus that feeds retrieval, embeddings or search.
R500k per country / year
When your users read the law inside your product.
R1.5m per country / year
Built for teams that analyse, transform or render law themselves.
R2m per country / year
Most teams weigh this against doing it themselves: sourcing every Act, consolidating each amendment and re-checking currency; for a whole country, every year, indefinitely.
Every available historical expression and point in time, for audit, change analysis and time-aware legal AI.
R3m per country / year
Analyse R2m + History R1m
South Africa includes available national and provincial legislation, plus the municipal by-laws we hold. We maintain collections in six African jurisdictions, and can supply several more that we scope and quote individually.
Canonical identifiers, jurisdiction, source provenance and a public source link, so your product can always cite the law it relies on and show where it came from.
Content is licensed for one named product or environment, including all of your own customers who use it. Protected internal indexes, chunks, embeddings and caches are allowed where necessary for that product. Training or fine-tuning a model on the collection needs written approval.
Outputs that rely on supplied legislation must carry a usable citation, a link to the canonical public text and a visible “Legislation data supplied by Laws.Africa” credit. A data-sources page must describe the collection and our role.
Build value-added products. Not raw content for resale, onward data feeds, a competing legal database or a substitute for this service. White-labelling your product for another business to run as its own is a separate arrangement — ask us early.
Prices exclude VAT. Licences are annual and normally paid in advance. Content API access is sales-assisted: support, delivery and standard terms are confirmed before we provision.
Tell us the country, the product you’re building and how current the law has to be. We’ll come back with what we hold, which package fits and what it costs.
Talk to usThis guide covers legislation collections only. Other content needs and limited-use cases are scoped separately. It is a product overview, not an order form or licence agreement.