Retsinformation, mirrored and compiled

Unofficial copy — not the official Retsinformation, and not legal advice. The texts are fetched automatically from retsinformation.dk and processed by machine, and they can contain errors. Consolidated texts in particular (a law "as of a date", with its amending acts worked in) are produced automatically, not by Civilstyrelsen: changes may be missing, misplaced or misread, and dates of entry into force may be judged wrongly. All use is at your own risk. Always check against the official version at retsinformation.dk, and seek legal advice before acting on any text.

This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Civilstyrelsen or retsinformation.dk. The software and the data are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy or completeness of the texts. The authors and contributors accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind arising from the use of, or reliance on, the software or the data. Nothing here is legal advice.

Every document published on retsinformation.dk, the Danish state's register of legislation: acts, consolidated acts, executive orders, circulars, guidance, the Ombudsman's statements and the rest, as the site publishes them, plus a compiled artifact that the Lovkilde server reads.

This card is written by the release that publishes the files below; it describes that release.

Published	2026-10-14 14:31 UTC
Documents in the artifact	191612
Document model	2
Artifact	artifact-20261014T1426Z-a8409f4b.lkz, 1.3 GB
Source archive	658 packs, 293340 files, 1.5 GB

The collector checks the site daily. When a document changed since the last release, it builds a new artifact and commits the artifact, the collection state and the source packs that changed in one commit; a day with no changed document publishes no release.

Files

• latest.json: the manifest. It names every file below with its size and SHA-256, and is committed last, so a reader that starts from it never finds a file missing.
• artifact-*.lkz: the compiled artifact, every document parsed into one model (seekable zstd, one frame per document).
• xml/<kind>/<year>.tar.zst: the source archive, as the site publishes it. Each pack holds the documents' XML and, beside them, JSON sidecars from the site's document API, whose documentHtml carries the text as HTML where the XML has none.
• state/: the collector's state (what was fetched, and when), from which the next release continues.

Using it

The Lovkilde server downloads the artifact by itself when it has none, and checks for a newer one daily:

lovkilde serve --release hf://lkarlslund/retsinformation

lovkilde artifact download --release hf://lkarlslund/retsinformation installs it without serving. A server that already has an artifact downloads only the chunks the new one does not share with it.

The source packs are plain tar compressed with zstd:

tar --zstd -xf lta/1995.tar.zst

Source and terms

The documents come from retsinformation.dk, run by Civilstyrelsen. Laws, executive orders, circulars, judgments and similar decisions of public authorities are not protected by copyright in Denmark (ophavsretsloven § 9). Check the site's terms for anything else.

This is an independent mirror; the official versions are the ones on retsinformation.dk.

This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Civilstyrelsen or retsinformation.dk. The software and the data are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy or completeness of the texts. The authors and contributors accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind arising from the use of, or reliance on, the software or the data. Nothing here is legal advice.