Tw Law MCP server

@pipeworx/tw-law

Taiwan's national statutes and the Constitution — full text in Chinese, plus the Ministry of Justice's own official English translation where one exists — searchable by title, resolvable by exact citation, and readable one provision at a time.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1815+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

English ("個人資料保護法", "Personal Data Protection", "民法").

• twlawsearch(query, limit?) — find a law by title keyword, Chinese or

official English title if any, repeal status, the last amendment date and the date that amendment takes/took legal effect as SEPARATE fields, and the promulgation history (Chinese, and English when translated).

• twlawinfo(pcode?, name?) — a law's full metadata: level, category,

structure and article numbers, paged.

• twlawtoc(pcode?, name?, offset?, limit?) — a law's chapter/section

Chinese plus the official English translation when the Ministry has published one, labelled official.

• twlawarticle(pcode?, name?, article) — one article's full text,

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

the Chinese text of every national statute and the Constitution, plus the Ministry's own official English translations for the subset it has translated (973 of 1,351 laws as of the 2026-10-15 load).

• Taiwan Ministry of Justice, Laws & Regulations Database (全國法規資料庫) —

The source publishes its whole catalog only as two bulk exports (Chinese, English), never a per-law or per-article live route — confirmed 2026-10-15. Per Bruce's 2026-09-23 local-copy ruling, this pack reads from a D1 copy loaded by scripts/tw-law/load-data.mjs, refreshed by re-running that script. dataasof on every response is when that load last ran.

Licence: 政府資料開放授權條款-第1版 (Government Open Data Licence v1), the licence the source's own data-reuse declaration (law.moj.gov.tw/Service/Copyright.aspx) names — free, non-exclusive, re-licensable, and explicitly permits reproduction, adaptation and public transmission (a mirror, not only a live proxy), conditioned on citing the source. Every response carries source.

English translations are tied to the exact Chinese version

Chinese and English are two separate bulk exports from the same publisher, joined by this pack's loader at load time, by law title and then by article number (normalizing "第 6-1 條" / "Article 6-1" / "6-1" to the same key) — never machine-translated, never guessed. An article with no official translation returns engcontent: null and hasofficialenglishtranslation: false rather than a translation that doesn't exist. A law can gain or lose an official translation between loads; twlawinfo/twlawsearch report hasofficialenglishtranslation as of the current dataas_of.

Notes

appears only inside an article's text.

• twlawsearch is a TITLE search — it will not find a law by a phrase that

article or insert a sub-article ("第 1-1 條" after "第 1 條"). Use twlawtoc to see a law's real article numbers rather than assuming 1..N.

• Article numbering is not always contiguous: amendments can delete an

Taiwanese statutes are routinely amended on one date and brought into force on another (sometimes "date to be set later by the Executive Yuan" — surfaced as effectivedatepending: true, with the full effective_note explaining which provisions are affected).

• effectivedate and lastamended_date are tracked separately because

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tw-law": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tw-law/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.