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+---
+license: other
+license_name: sso-terms-of-use
+license_link: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Terms-of-Use
+language:
+  - en
+task_categories:
+  - text-retrieval
+  - text-classification
+  - question-answering
+tags:
+  - legal
+  - singapore
+  - statutes
+  - subsidiary-legislation
+  - acts
+  - regulations
+  - knowledge-graph
+  - legal-nlp
+  - asean
+pretty_name: Singapore Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation (SSO)
+size_categories:
+  - 10K<n<100K
+---
+
+# Singapore Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation
+
+A structured, section-level dataset of all Singapore statutes (Acts) and subsidiary legislation (Regulations, Rules, Orders) from [Singapore Statutes Online (SSO)](https://sso.agc.gov.sg/).
+
+## Disclaimer
+
+**This is an unofficial reproduction of Singapore legislation sourced from Singapore Statutes Online (sso.agc.gov.sg). It is not and should not be relied upon as the authoritative text of Singapore legislation.** The official text is the version published in the Government Gazette.
+
+Source: Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore via Singapore Statutes Online.
+
+Use of this dataset is subject to SSO's [Terms of Use](https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Terms-of-Use).
+
+## Dataset Summary
+
+| | Count |
+|---|---|
+| Acts (primary legislation) | 535 |
+| Subsidiary Legislation (regulations, rules, orders) | 1782 |
+| Total documents | 2317 |
+| Total sections (text chunks) | 55,221 |
+| Act sections | 28,943 |
+| Subsidiary Legislation sections | 26,278 |
+
+This dataset provides **parsed, section-level text** rather than raw PDFs. Each section includes its hierarchical position (Part, Division) and parent document metadata. Subsidiary legislation is linked to its parent Act.
+
+## Data Structure
+
+### `documents.parquet` — Document metadata
+
+| Column | Type | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `name` | string | Act or SL name (e.g. "Employment Act 1968") |
+| `doc_type` | string | `"act"` or `"subsidiary_legislation"` |
+| `parent_act` | string | Parent Act name (SL only, empty for Acts) |
+| `page_count` | int | Number of pages in source PDF |
+| `num_sections` | int | Number of parsed sections |
+
+### `sections.parquet` — Section-level text
+
+| Column | Type | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `doc_name` | string | Parent document name |
+| `doc_type` | string | `"act"` or `"subsidiary_legislation"` |
+| `parent_act` | string | Parent Act name (SL only) |
+| `section_title` | string | Section heading (e.g. "14. Termination of contract without notice") |
+| `part` | string | Part heading (e.g. "PART 4 REST DAYS, HOURS OF WORK AND OTHER CONDITIONS") |
+| `division` | string | Division heading if applicable |
+| `pages` | string | JSON array of source PDF page numbers |
+| `text` | string | Full section text |
+
+## Use Cases
+
+- **Legal NLP**: Train or evaluate models on Singapore statutory text
+- **Legal information retrieval**: Build search systems over structured legislation
+- **Knowledge graph construction**: Act-SL hierarchies, cross-references between statutes
+- **Statutory definition extraction**: Interpretation sections contain formal term definitions
+- **Comparative law**: Compare Singapore legislation structure with other common law jurisdictions
+- **RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)**: Section-level chunks ready for embedding and retrieval
+
+## How to Load
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# Load both splits
+docs = load_dataset("Kaidon-Ng/singapore-statutes", data_files="data/documents.parquet", split="train")
+sections = load_dataset("Kaidon-Ng/singapore-statutes", data_files="data/sections.parquet", split="train")
+
+# Filter by type
+acts_only = sections.filter(lambda x: x["doc_type"] == "act")
+sl_only = sections.filter(lambda x: x["doc_type"] == "subsidiary_legislation")
+
+# Get all sections from Employment Act
+ea = sections.filter(lambda x: x["doc_name"] == "Employment Act 1968")
+```
+
+## Source and License
+
+- **Source**: [Singapore Statutes Online (SSO)](https://sso.agc.gov.sg/), Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore
+- **License**: Subject to [SSO Terms of Use](https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Terms-of-Use)
+- **Official text**: The Government Gazette version is the authoritative text of Singapore legislation
+- **Processing**: PDFs parsed into structured JSON, then flattened to section-level Parquet
+
+## Limitations
+
+- This is an **unofficial** reproduction and may contain parsing artifacts from PDF extraction
+- Legislation text may not reflect the most recent amendments
+- Some sections may have formatting issues from PDF-to-text conversion
+- Does not include repealed legislation or historical versions
+- Does not include case law or judicial interpretations
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{singapore_statutes_sso,
+  title={Singapore Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation (SSO)},
+  author={LawBot Project},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={HuggingFace},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kaidon-Ng/singapore-statutes}
+}
+```