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Work out your situation, with the law beside you.
laws.sg is a private place to ask about what’s happening to you, read the laws and court decisions that apply, and keep what you find together.
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01 — What you can do
Ask, read, keep, follow
Everything you need to understand where you stand, in one private place.
Ask in your own words
Describe what’s happening the way you’d tell a friend. You get a plain-English answer and the exact sections it relies on.
- Numbered citations open the official text
- Suggested follow-up questions
- Save any answer to a notebook
A notebook for each situation
Leaving a job, renting a flat, sorting out an estate. Keep the laws and notes for each one together, in one private place.
- Save a law or a passage in one tap
- Add your own note to anything you save
- Only you can see your notebooks
Read the actual law, explained
The sections people read most, in plain English, with the official words underneath.
- Defined terms explained where they appear
- Save or cite any section
- See what changed and compare versions
Hear when the law changes
Follow a section and we’ll tell you when it’s amended, when new rules start, or when a court applies it.
- Changes to laws you follow, on your Home
- New judgments explained in one line
- Laws, judgments and guides, told apart
02 — On your phone
A legal research platform in your pocket
Start a question on the bus and finish it at your desk. Sign in on any device and your laws.sg notebooks are there.
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03 — Why you can trust it
Built on the real law, and on your side
Always the official text
Every answer links to the section or judgment it relies on, taken unchanged from Singapore Statutes Online and eLitigation.
Private by default
Only you can see your notebooks, notes and questions. Your connected AI reads public law only, never your notebooks.
Information, not legal advice
We help you understand the law. When your situation needs a lawyer, we say so plainly.
Works with your AI
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant at laws.sg/mcp, so it reads the actual law too.
04 — Accounts
Free to use, with or without an account
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Look things up whenever you need to.
- Search and read every law, judgment and guide
- Plain English for the sections people read most
- Ask a question in your own words
- Connect your AI to public law
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For when something is going on.
- Everything without an account
- Notebooks and notes for each situation
- More questions each day
- Follow laws and hear when they change
- Keep your past questions
05 — Questions
Good to know
Is this legal advice?
No. laws.sg explains what the law says and links you to it. For advice on your own case, speak to a lawyer or a community legal clinic.
Where does the law come from?
Acts and rules come from Singapore Statutes Online, and judgments from eLitigation, both unchanged. Plain-English summaries are marked as ours.
Who can see my notebooks?
Only you. Notebooks, notes and questions are private, and a connected AI reads public law only, never your notebooks.
Which countries are covered?
laws.sg covers Singapore. Malaysia, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Indonesia have their own sites: mylaw.my, bruneilaws, srilaws and pasal.id.
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What’s going on?
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Can’t find it? Ask
Describe what’s going on and we’ll point you to the Act and section that covers it.
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