About srilaws

01 ·What this is

A reading and research tool over Sri Lanka’s own legal sources. Every law is open to anyone: no account, no paywall, no trial.

02 ·What we add

The words of the law are the official publisher’s and are reproduced faithfully. Everything around them is ours:

Structure. Each law is parsed into its real hierarchy, so every section has its own address you can open, link to and cite.

Status. A law is called in force, amended or repealed only where the relationships between laws that show it are recorded. They are not recorded here yet, so no page says whether a law is in force.

Provenance. Every page links the source it was taken from and says when its text was last updated.

Machine access. Your AI assistant can read the same law over MCP, so its answers quote the text instead of recalling it.

How each of these is built and checked is set out in the methodology.

03 ·What this is not

Not the official publisher. srilaws is not a government body, a court or an official gazette, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Where the text here and the official source differ, the official source is right.

Not legal advice. Reading a law is not the same as knowing how it applies to you. Nothing here, including an answer from a connected AI, is advice. For a matter that affects you, speak to a lawyer.

Not guaranteed current. Law changes, and a consolidation can lag the amendment that changed it. Pages say when their text was last updated so you can judge that yourself.

04 ·Who runs it

srilaws is an independent project. It is not run by, funded by or answerable to any government body, court, official publisher or law firm, and none of them has any say in what appears here.

05 ·How it is paid for

Reading is free and stays free. srilaws carries no ads, and nobody pays to have a law included, left out, ordered or worded a particular way.