What does the law stock look like (acts and ordinances by decade, kind and printed status), which laws are amended most, how many notices does each ministry publish, what is the court register's shape, and which act creates which body?

Law and legal architecture. Part of what the twin can answer. Every figure below is the value the route serves, with its source; the raw response is at /api/twin/brain/law.

Descriptive, sourced: no model

Basis: sourced records (URL, sha256 or locator per row), no model.

Counts of stored rows and named arithmetic on them (shares, differences). Status is the printed marker only. Aggregates only; no person name is read.

the [Repealed] or [রহিত] marker bdlaws prints in the act's title; no marker is not a legal finding that the act is in force

As of: Bdlaws pages, first: 20 September 2026; Bdlaws pages, last: 20 September 2026; Gazette last issue: 21 September 2026.

Harvested law pages, retrieved 2026-09-20T13:44:46Z to 2026-09-20T14:17:06Z: 1,679; Laws of Bangladesh, the print page of each act (title, status marker, footnotes)
Pages not marked repealed at that harvest: 1,352; Laws of Bangladesh, the print page of each act (title, status marker, footnotes)
Pages marked repealed at that harvest: 327; Laws of Bangladesh, the print page of each act (title, status marker, footnotes)
Not-marked-repealed pages linked to an administering body, of 1,352: 2.4%; Twin registry links between a body and an act, each act checked against its bdlaws page
Gazette notices listed, 1 January 2015 to 21 September 2026: 47,609; Bangladesh Gazette Extraordinary, issue listing (one row per listed notice)
Gazette notices tied to a registry body over that period: 77.4%; Bangladesh Gazette Extraordinary, issue listing (one row per listed notice)

On phones, each table row lists its labeled values. Open the JSON response for every receipt field.

Acts and ordinances by the year in their title

the [Repealed] or [রহিত] marker bdlaws prints in the act's title; no marker is not a legal finding that the act is in force

Harvested pages by decade (printed status only)

Decade begins	All pages	Not marked repealed	Acts not marked repealed	Ordinances not marked repealed	Marked repealed
1790	All pages: 1

Which ministries administer the linked laws?

An administering body is the twin registry's 'administers' link to an act whose bdlaws page matches the registry's title and printed act number; every other act has no administering body here (not held).

Linked laws at the September 2026 harvest: 38; Twin registry links between a body and an act, each act checked against its bdlaws page
Of those, not marked repealed: 33; Twin registry links between a body and an act, each act checked against its bdlaws page

Registry administering links checked against bdlaws

Body	Linked laws
Local Government Division

Which laws cite the most amending instruments?

A footnote that names the amending instrument without its number is not attributed, so each count is a lower bound; the page lists amendments up to its own consolidation date.

Most amended pages, including printed repealed pages, at the September 2026 harvest

Act	Title year	Distinct numbered amending instruments (lower bound)	Printed repealed marker	Unparsed footnotes
The Income-tax Ordinance, 1984 [Repealed]	Title year: 1984

Who publishes the most gazette notices?

the 3 printed ministries with the most notices, shown with the year totals that remain without them; the index prints no notice type, so what these notices are is not classified here

Three largest printed headings, 1 January 2015 to 21 September 2026

Printed heading	Notices	Share
Ministry of Liberation War Affairs	Notices: 14,446	Share: 30.3%
Election Commission Secretariat

Court structure: nodes, not pending cases

Court nodes per tier in the subordinate court register: structure, not caseload or backlog.

Subordinate court nodes by tier, retrieved September 2026

Tier	Nodes	Share	Retrieval dates
District judge	Nodes: 2,266	Share: 52.7%	Retrieval dates: 2026-09-21T19:47:44.965295+00:00, 2026-09-21T19:57:07.233791+00:00

Which act establishes or continues which body?

A body is listed against an act when the act's own page prints the body's name and establishes, constitutes or continues it (two readers), or when the registry's created_by link matches the act's bdlaws page. 'continues' keeps an existing body; it is not creation.

Body-act pairs at the September 2026 harvest

Act	Body	Relations as served
The Constitution of the People‌‌‍’s Republic of Bangladesh	Body: President's Office	Relations as served: `provides_for_the_office`

Gazette notices by year (2026 is a part year)

1 January 2015 to 21 September 2026. Source: gazette_extraordinary_index.

All listed notices

Period	Count
2015	Count: 2,509
2016	Count: 3,958
2017	Count: 4,125

Pinned input tables

Dataset	sha256
`law_act_amendments`	sha256: 0d319721e41169bd63b1d03ef92e623e37215431803b91f524389f8f9106e74c
`gazette_extraordinary_index`	sha256: dc8c3d26a804ddc4d27e584d327cb8e210ec8b2ced7b9d989720732d6fdd2d1c
`gazette_ministry_entity`	sha256: 453022c832ca283c33d38942e7c7ac9129dcd9510eef5635b2a8a568849236b2

Not held

Court case backlog by court tier: No pinned, non-quarantined table prints pending cases by court. The one backlog and disposal time series in the lake is quarantined (authored, not collected; app/twin/quarantine.py), and the cause lists record cases listed for a day, not cases pending.
Administering ministry of an act, for acts outside the registry: bdlaws prints no administering ministry, and no pinned table assigns one to each act. Only the acts the twin registry links to a body, with the act checked against its bdlaws page, are served.
Acts whose amendments are named without a number: 590 of 15,314 footnotes name the amending instrument without its number or truncate it; they are counted per act (footnotes_unparsed) and not attributed to an instrument.

Sources

Laws of Bangladesh, the print page of each act (title, status marker, footnotes). Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), archived page by page with sha256. dataset law_act_amendmentsOne row per harvested act page: 1,679 pages, of which 327 print a [Repealed] or [রহিত] marker in the title. An act without the marker is 'not marked repealed' on the date of the harvest; that is not a legal finding that it is in force. Year and kind (act, ordinance, order, regulation) are read from the printed title, and 'other' is a title with no such word before the year (the Penal Code, the Constitution). bdlaws prints no administering ministry. An amendment count is the number of distinct instruments the page's footnotes cite as amending it by a printed number (Bangla 'YYYY সনের N নং আইন' or English 'Act No. N of YYYY'); 590 of 15,314 footnotes name the instrument without its number, so every count is a lower bound. A page lists amendments up to its last consolidation date, which differs by act.
Bangladesh Gazette Extraordinary, issue listing (one row per listed notice). Department of Printing and Publications (DPP), listing pages archived with sha256

Not marked repealed:

Withheld administering links: conflicting act numbers

Body	Registry law	Registry reference	bdlaws reference
Ministry of Commerce	Registry law: Competition Act 2012	Registry reference: Act XXXIII of 2012	bdlaws reference: Act No. 23 of 2012
Ministry of Water Resources	Registry law: Bangladesh Water Development Board Act 2000	Registry reference: Act VIII of 2000	bdlaws reference: Act No. 26 of 2000
Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources	Registry law: Electricity Act 2018	Registry reference: Act I of 2018	bdlaws reference: Act No. 7 of 2018
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission	Registry law: Electricity Act 2018	Registry reference: Act I of 2018	bdlaws reference: Act No. 7 of 2018

Distinct numbered amending instruments (lower bound):

Bodies with the most notices listed over that period

Body	Notices	Share of all notices	Match basis
Ministry of Liberation War Affairs	Notices: 14,446	Share of all notices: 30.3%	Match basis: exact
Election Commission of Bangladesh	Notices: 10,727	Share of all notices: 22.5%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives	Notices: 1,519	Share of all notices: 3.2%	Match basis: exact
Law and Justice Division	Notices: 1,391	Share of all notices: 2.9%	Match basis: exact
Jatiya Sangsad	Notices: 1,119	Share of all notices: 2.4%	Match basis: exact
Cabinet Division	Notices: 1,059	Share of all notices: 2.2%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Finance	Notices: 909	Share of all notices: 1.9%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Home Affairs	Notices: 689	Share of all notices: 1.4%	Match basis: exact
National Board of Revenue	Notices: 510	Share of all notices: 1.1%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs	Notices: 478	Share of all notices: 1%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Labour and Employment	Notices: 424	Share of all notices: 0.9%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Industries	Notices: 358	Share of all notices: 0.8%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges	Notices: 236	Share of all notices: 0.5%	Match basis: exact
Prime Minister's Office	Notices: 210	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Public Administration	Notices: 203	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Notices: 188	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: `renamed_successor`
Ministry of Housing and Public Works	Notices: 176	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Agriculture	Notices: 173	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: exact
Bangladesh Public Service Commission	Notices: 167	Share of all notices: 0.4%	Match basis: exact
Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources	Notices: 166	Share of all notices: 0.3%	Match basis: exact

Printed headings with no matched Body

Heading	Notices	Share
Non Government Organization	Notices: 10,716	Share: 22.5%
Ministry of Science and ICT	Notices: 22	Share: 0%
Others	Notices: 12	Share: 0%
Bangladesh Bar Council	Notices: 11	Share: 0%
Ministry of Information and Communication Tech.	Notices: 8	Share: 0%
Ministry of Communication	Notices: 1	Share: 0%

Chief judicial magistrate

The Civil Aviation Ordinance, 1960 [Repealed]

Constitutional article bodies, listed apart

Body	Provision
President's Office	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 48
Jatiya Sangsad	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 65
Supreme Court of Bangladesh	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 94
Election Commission of Bangladesh	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 118
Bangladesh Public Service Commission	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 137
Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 127
Office of the Attorney General	Provision: Constitution of Bangladesh, Article 64

Schedule I: business allocation, not creation

Headings of the Rules of Business 1996, Schedule I (Allocation of Business), that name a body: business allocated to it, not a legal basis that creates it.

Source table	Bodies
`national_body_legal_basis_lb`	Bodies: 32
`national_body_legal_basis_legal3`	Bodies: 16

Without the three largest printed headings

Period	Count
2015	Count: 1,003
2016	Count: 1,233
2017	Count: 997
2018	Count: 1,003
2019	Count: 963
2020	Count: 908
2021	Count: 859
2022	Count: 831
2023	Count: 847
2024	Count: 1,079
2025	Count: 943
2026	Count: 1,054

Yearly counts for each matched body

Ministry of Liberation War Affairs

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 272
2016	Count: 1,168
2017	Count: 2,155
2018	Count: 2,980
2019	Count: 1,951
2020	Count: 1,187
2021	Count: 1,243
2022	Count: 1,157
2023	Count: 1,215
2024	Count: 626
2025	Count: 326
2026	Count: 166

Election Commission of Bangladesh

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 911
2016	Count: 1,208
2017	Count: 594

Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 162
2016	Count: 421
2017	Count: 142

Law and Justice Division

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 148
2016	Count: 119
2017	Count: 134

Jatiya Sangsad

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 84
2016	Count: 108
2017	Count: 71

Cabinet Division

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 51
2016	Count: 59
2017	Count: 63

Ministry of Finance

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 117
2016	Count: 76
2017	Count: 83

Ministry of Home Affairs

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 64
2016	Count: 95
2017	Count: 66

National Board of Revenue

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 3
2016	Count: 41
2017	Count: 49

Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 29
2016	Count: 28
2017	Count: 19

Ministry of Labour and Employment

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 31
2016	Count: 45
2017	Count: 57

Ministry of Industries

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 19
2016	Count: 16
2017	Count: 10

Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 2
2016	Count: 18
2017	Count: 13

Prime Minister's Office

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 19
2016	Count: 18
2017	Count: 15

Ministry of Public Administration

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 17
2016	Count: 6
2017	Count: 14

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 25
2016	Count: 18
2017	Count: 18

Ministry of Housing and Public Works

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 43
2016	Count: 5
2017	Count: 49

Ministry of Agriculture

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 7
2016	Count: 3
2017	Count: 4

Bangladesh Public Service Commission

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 3
2016	Count: 10
2017	Count: 12

Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources

Open the body record

Notices listed by year (2026 is a part year)

Period	Count
2015	Count: 10
2016	Count: 23
2017	Count: 13

Act records and their source pages

Open an act's amendment record

The Income-tax Ordinance, 1984 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 809b87f0b0e55844c4f2ec9b07bef0ce1ae43c56d650cfc65b9c7afc89960006
The Customs Act, 1969 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 45ad87a016e392328a5416fb65fa6d1e5c49666c782e885c80790eb9aeec8c8e
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Stored source · sha256 e04daeabbae264ccf2400a9caadfbaee26772bcc16505bc1f5527df879ce1ec1
মূল্য সংযোজন কর আইন, ১৯৯১ [রহিত]
Stored source · sha256 c3b099c2c8c5c2035f722a2a350c007b9e77ff517234d64886cd849672e74fb2
The Excises and Salt Act, 1944
Stored source · sha256 777a83fd4e08aabc2abe99001983f1dde8f0e2d7626b0dcf2b4c735ef447201e
The Penal Code, 1860
Stored source · sha256 8fd26f28bcb5425055e294f59d7aed332374f6ec6bb402496d67b0124cf0620e
The Representation of the People Order, 1972 (President's Order)
Stored source · sha256 c6a716483a77a0deacbd2b156938bbb52d1f04751229f6acc00fc0cab34439bf
The State Acquisition and Tenancy Act, 1950 (East Bengal Act)
Stored source · sha256 133e9526661d7d243ca8779110cc79e5cefb7177f0e16a88e13db81d2520f565
The Insurance Act, 1938 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 495c2ebf382beb5f5c6edfedb22422ad0aee162cce98980d3f084e59b0f0d2de
The Paurashava Ordinance, 1977 (Ordinance) [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 dcd937ed6462b42d2a9f2241d6ec01a1a398109e04fd270e457ab19b0067b58b
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Stored source · sha256 8aa4609c1ac57da5174c08f73ce1cd0ee134d4aabac5f9cf8320a862b33b8d9d
The Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 (President's Order)
Stored source · sha256 a77a8a40757e98c0769516d7c9c98b01eb32b0dfd4b06e93b32044f60a8a9546
The Bangladesh Industrial Enterprises (Nationalisation) Order, 1972 (President's Order) [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 fc6af94c101eec2eef2eafe2541b096c5234279d881010bbaac035fcb620020c
The Local Government (Union Parishads) Ordinance, 1983 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 a934a2eb9bb0c421ba0c7d45daff600709185d725490ecf8a8182752732464b7
The Chittagong City Corporation Ordinance, 1982 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 e46206cb7e3f3973adb22798775378e7543181a67ef4008fc5eccb1f2ccb67b9
The Constitution of the People‌‌‍’s Republic of Bangladesh
Stored source · sha256 477bbc1477c96a8dd62dac9cda560b3699e9f71f1f81252d2ae7380f96103c7b
The Ministers, Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers (Remuneration and Privileges) Act, 1973
Stored source · sha256 195f0a30fe890349e32850522181db3b770d53d17e67987610e323d8268057ca
The Registration Act, 1908
Stored source · sha256 29a8137a3c67ca7bffcf29af4f6537ad9dc8e576239cd236f95a582abd36d6d6
The Court of Wards Act, 1879
Stored source · sha256 207889ea0bbd1730be5edd9d4a1263f9c58b84667cc8b4bc89ab11b2da607599
The Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Allowances) Order, 1973 (President's Order)
Stored source · sha256 0698f4124639f387e639be67ffc53248240bc8ea87fb71464d8ed369d004e7ff

Open an act's establishing or continuing relations

The Constitution of the People‌‌‍’s Republic of Bangladesh
Stored source · sha256 477bbc1477c96a8dd62dac9cda560b3699e9f71f1f81252d2ae7380f96103c7b
The Civil Aviation Ordinance, 1960 [Repealed]
Stored source · sha256 72ddd21c8b14634e07a0a770ff0699481d88c657d957887ad8350065f12287d7
The National Board of Revenue Order, 1972 (President's Order)
Stored source · sha256 8f35bf561daee8103ba5b30976fd4e01291c231015635d53fe337a8924a6aa4c
The Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 (President's Order)

entity_legal_provenance

. dataset gazette_extraordinary_index, gazette_ministry_entity

A count is notices listed, by the ministry the listing prints. Printed ministries are tied to a Body by exact name, or by a reviewed successor name (match_kind), and left unresolved otherwise. The index prints a title, not a notice type, so it does not separate a rule from a list or a roster. The listing covers 2015 to 2026-09-21; 2026 is a part year, and the per-year counts differ for reasons the index does not state.

Twin registry links between a body and an act, each act checked against its bdlaws page. BPL twin registry (entity_legal_provenance); the two-reader legal-basis tables of lanes RX2, LEGAL, LEGAL2 and LB, each with a quote from the saved source. dataset entity_legal_provenance, national_body_legal_basis_rx2, national_body_legal_basis_legal, national_body_legal_basis_legal2, national_body_legal_basis_lb, national_body_legal_basis_legal3An administering link is the twin registry's own assertion; the check against bdlaws confirms the act (title match and the printed act number), not who administers it. Rows whose registry act number differs from the bdlaws page are withheld and listed. A creating link is a body whose own act page prints its name and establishes, constitutes or continues it, read by two readers (relation_a, relation_b). Schedule I of the Rules of Business allocates business to a body; it is counted apart because it does not create the body. The bodies' other legal-basis tables (older two-reader tables without an act id, class-level rules for local bodies) are served by the entity record, not here.

Subordinate court register (causelist.judiciary.gov.bd). Supreme Court of Bangladesh, subordinate judiciary court register (PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_BULK). dataset twin_court_nodesCourt nodes per tier: structure, not caseload. The Supreme Court (High Court and Appellate Divisions) is not in this table.

· sha256 a77a8a40757e98c0769516d7c9c98b01eb32b0dfd4b06e93b32044f60a8a9546

The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority Act, 1980

Stored source · sha256 ea49400db7494770673e06f3404fcfa2988fe0edee7a352ea0854a381e8d68b7

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution Ordinance, 1985 [Repealed]

Stored source · sha256 b7a9b46961e002835d93a58ad57bf02a04c9914a0fb55be0ad478ec5dc0a0032

বাংলাদেশ কমপিউটার কাউন্সিল আইন, ১৯৯০

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জাতীয় মহিলা সংস্থা আইন, ১৯৯১

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বাংলাদেশ পরিবেশ সংরক্ষণ আইন, ১৯৯৫

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বাংলাদেশ টেলিযোগাযোগ আইন, ২০০১

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দুর্নীতি দমন কমিশন আইন, ২০০৪

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তথ্য অধিকার আইন, ২০০৯

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বাংলাদেশ অর্থনৈতিক অঞ্চল আইন, ২০১০

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ইসলামি আরবি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় আইন, ২০১৩

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নিরাপদ খাদ্য আইন, ২০১৩

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পল্লী বিদ্যুতায়ন বোর্ড আইন, ২০১৩

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পল্লী সঞ্চয় ব্যাংক আইন, ২০১৪

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উপানুষ্ঠানিক শিক্ষা আইন, ২০১৪

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বীজ আইন, ২০১৮

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আবহাওয়া আইন, ২০১৮

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হিন্দুধর্মীয় কল্যাণ ট্রাস্ট আইন, ২০১৮

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বাংলাদেশ শিল্প-নকশা আইন, ২০২৩

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