Hk Elegislation MCP server

@pipeworx/hk-elegislation

Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation and instruments — full text in English and Traditional Chinese, both original and equally authentic — searchable by title, resolvable by exact Cap. (chapter) citation, and readable one section at a time.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1856+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

Traditional Chinese ("Personal Data", "個人資料", "Companies Ordinance"), or by a bare chapter number ("486").

• hklawsearch(query, limit?) — find a law by title keyword, English or

titles, in-force status, the version date of the English text and of the Chinese text as SEPARATE fields, and whether it is a principal Ordinance, subsidiary legislation, or an instrument.

• hklawinfo(cap?, title?) — a law's full metadata: English and Chinese

headings, paged.

• hklawtoc(cap?, title?, offset?, limit?) — a law's section numbers and

AND Traditional Chinese side by side, plus its in-force status and version-valid-from date.

• hklawsection(cap?, title?, section) — one section's full text, English

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

of every Ordinance, subsidiary legislation instrument and other instrument, in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, published as bulk archives on DATA.GOV.HK (organisation "hk-doj").

• Hong Kong Department of Justice, e-Legislation — the current-version text

The interactive e-Legislation website gates every page behind a JavaScript client-capability check that a plain HTTP client cannot pass (verified 2026-10-16) and the DATA.GOV.HK catalog offers only whole-range bulk downloads — there is no per-chapter or per-section live route. Per Bruce's 2026-09-23 local-copy ruling, this pack reads from a D1 copy loaded by scripts/hk-elegislation/load-data.mjs (English and Traditional Chinese; Simplified Chinese is also published by the source but not loaded in this first pass), refreshed by re-running that script. dataasof on every response is when that load last ran.

Licence: DATA.GOV.HK's own Terms of Use grant free browsing, download, distribution and reproduction of the Data for commercial or non-commercial purposes, conditioned on identifying the source and acknowledging the HKSAR Government's ownership of the underlying IP — an explicit reuse grant, not merely a live-proxy allowance. Every response carries source. Only a PDF marked "Verified Copy" from the e-Legislation website itself is presumed legally accurate as at its stated date (Legislation Publication Ordinance, Cap. 614 s.5); this pack, like the live site's own non-PDF views, is provided for information.

Both languages are original — neither is a "translation"

Under the Official Languages Ordinance (Cap. 5) s.4B, the English and Chinese texts of a Hong Kong Ordinance are equally authentic — this pack never labels one a translation of the other. hklawsection returns both side by side, each carrying its own version-valid-from date, because one language's text can be consolidated ahead of the other after an amendment.

Notes

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.