Curated instruments
143
Source: GovTwin legal registryAs of 1849 to 2023
Next steps
Institutions · Law in force, 1849 to 2023
Source: GovTwin legal-framework registry and Laws of BangladeshAs of registry refresh; complete corpus refreshed weekly
Curated instruments
143
Source: GovTwin legal registryAs of 1849 to 2023
Colonial-era acts
23
Instruments enacted before 1947 that remain listed.
Source: GovTwin legal registry
Last ordinance year
1985
Source: GovTwin legal registry
Complete acts corpus
1,347
Source: Laws of Bangladesh (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionAs of 2026
Composition
| Type | Count | Share | Span |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | 94 | 65.7% | 1849 to 2023 |
| ordinance | 19 | 13.3% | 1960 to 1985 |
| constitutional article | 17 | 11.9% | 1972 |
| policy | 8 | 5.6% | 1997 to 2016 |
| rules | 4 | 2.8% | 1979 to 2008 |
| constitution | 1 | 0.7% | 1972 |
Endpoints
Endpoints
The complete corpus
Beyond the curated registry above, the full Laws of Bangladesh database carries 1,347 acts from 1799 to 2026. The recent spike is structural: the ordinances issued while parliament stood dissolved were converted into acts once a new parliament sat.
Acts passed per year
Latest acts on the books
Laws of Bangladesh (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division. Refreshed weekly.
Method and sources
Source: the GovTwin legal-framework registry, 143 instruments spanning 1849 to 2023: acts, ordinances, constitutional articles, policies and rules. Era bands group each instrument by enactment year. The registry tracks instruments recorded as currently in force; that coverage is not a claim that the colonial statutes listed here are unamended, only that they remain on the books. The absence of any ordinance after 1985 reflects the post-1990 return to parliamentary lawmaking, when ordinance-making by the executive was curtailed. See the government twin for the institutions that administer these laws.
Source: GovTwin legal-framework registry; Laws of Bangladesh complete corpusAs of complete corpus refreshed weekly