Welcome to the
Computer-Readable Legislation Project (CRLP)

At the States of Jersey’s Legislative Drafting Office (LDO) we have a 2.5-year Computer-Readable Legislation Project running to the middle of 2025 (part of the global “Rules as Code” initiative).

For more, see About the project, Our work, and the Team. We also have a Substack blog.

Our big news is that we have secured funding from the Jersey Legal Information Board to work till June 2025 with the Centre for Digital Law at Singapore Management University on several ideas to see what their L4 DSL (a “domain specific language” or DSL for law) can do with our project - see our outline plan. See our presentation of some initial results at the CALC/PCC Perth 2025 conference on the work we have done with Word on definitions, and our work with Singapore so far (slides available on our OSF site). See also this demonstration video of using Excel and Singapore’s L4 on the British Nationality Act.

A diagram showing the if-this-then-that structure of a piece of legislation If-this-then structure of a provision

A highlighted offence provision showing its component parts Tagged components of an offence provision