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ActIntel

The statute book, finally readable.

Every national Act from 1931 to today. As Parliament passed it, what has changed since, and what each section asks of you.

A long shelf of the same bound volume in successive editions, a beam of gold light travelling along the spines.

Today's law is not always the law that applied.

Most legal libraries show an Act as it reads now, every amendment already folded in. That is exactly right, until your question is about something that happened years ago.

ActIntel keeps each Act as it was enacted and marks the sections that have since been amended or repealed, so you can tell the difference.

Not just the words. What the words ask of you.

15,825 obligations

Who must do what.

Every duty in the statute book drawn out of the prose, so a requirement is something you can find, not something buried in subsection four.

4,255 exceptions

Where the rule bends.

The carve-outs and provisos that decide most real questions, picked out rather than left for you to spot on a third reading.

2,050 definitions

What a word means here.

"Employee" means something different in different Acts. See every definition side by side, with the Act that gives it that meaning.

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Built for the person who has to comply.

The owner reading a notice at nine at night. The HR manager before a disciplinary hearing. The journalist checking a claim about a new law. The law belongs to all of them, and now they can read it.

688national Acts of Parliament
21,388sections, each one addressable
18,129links between Acts that rely on each other
1931the oldest Act still on the book
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A country's rules, connected.

No Act stands alone. ActIntel follows the references between them, so you can see what an Act leans on and which laws lean on it in turn.

South Africa was the first statute book. Zambia is live now, with more of SADC to come.

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The whole statute book, open.

Search the words of the law itself, read any section in full, and see where it has changed.