be-legal-dataBelgian legal reference data

Courts, judicial cantons and arrondissements, municipalities, and the legal and commercial interest rates. JSON, with TypeScript types and helpers.

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Find a canton

Interest rates

Sourced

Every dataset records where it comes from, from the annex to the Judicial Code to Statbel and the Belgisch Staatsblad.

Complete territory

All 162 judicial cantons with the municipalities they cover, including the legal text for cities split over several cantons.

Interest rates since 1970

The legal rate per year and the commercial-transaction rate per semester, with the 2013–2015 contract-date rule built in.

Not just for JavaScript

The JSON files in data/ are the source of truth. Read them from Python or anything else, pinned to a release tag.

At a glance

Dataset	Records	Page
Judicial areas	5	Territory
Arrondissements	12	Territory
Cantons	162 (55 cover part of a split municipality)	Territory
Municipalities	565	Territory
Courts	46	Courts

import { getCantonsForMunicipality, getInterestRate } from 'be-legal-data'

getCantonsForMunicipality('44088') // [Canton merelbeke-melle]
getInterestRate('2024-06-15', 'legal') // { rate: 5.75, period: { from: '2024-01-01', to: '2024-12-31' } }

Reference data, not legal advice

Check the official sources before relying on it.