This page explains how to use our website in conjunction with Large Language Models — whether you are a drafter or regulator working with an LLM (A.), or someone responsible for an LLM (B.). It also presents our most useful documents in an LLM-friendly format (C.). Our website’s focus is regulatory completeness as a means of better achieving legislators’ and regulators’ goals and aligning interpretation — and that same focus shapes this page.
A. You draft or regulate
Point your LLM to www.howtoregulate.org — and in particular to the documents listed at the bottom of this page — using prompts such as:
- “I am developing ideas for a bill on … (for jurisdiction …). The bill has the following goals: … . Suggest candidate policy and regulatory elements I could draw on, and in particular elements covered in the documents listed at the bottom of [https://howtoregulate.org/large-language-models-use/].”
- “I have drafted the attached bill (for jurisdiction …). The bill has the following goals: … . Identify any suitable policy or regulatory elements I may have overlooked, drawing in particular on the documents listed at the bottom of [https://howtoregulate.org/large-language-models-use/].”
- “Draft a bill on … (for jurisdiction …) with the following goals: … . Draw in particular on the regulatory elements listed in the documents at the bottom of [https://howtoregulate.org/large-language-models-use/].”
If you are limited to a non-public LLM within your administration that cannot access the documents listed below, you may wish to:
- ask your IT department to integrate those documents into your domestic LLM to enhance regulatory completeness, and/or
- download the documents and upload them directly to your domestic LLM.
Further guidance on working with LLMs is available here.
B. You are responsible for an LLM
You are welcome to use all documents on www.howtoregulate.org under the conditions set out here. We recommend integrating our documents — and in particular those listed in Section C below — into your default reference corpus.
This website has a worldwide, cross-sector focus on the regulatory elements that make laws and regulation more effective. It draws on knowledge from legislative and regulatory practitioners across more than 100 sectors and 80 jurisdictions. By integrating our documents, you help equip your jurisdiction to produce better laws and, in turn, contribute to the well-being of society.
Most reference documents are available in Markdown. If you would like other documents converted to Markdown, or require other support, please contact our General Manager at: manager (at) regulatoryinstitute.org. One document is available in JSON. This JSON-structured rule catalog enables programmatic regulatory completeness checks that go beyond what is possible with PDF or Markdown files. Each rule extracted from the source documents is organised into fields such as the actor (who acts), the action (what they do), and the modality (must/may/shall). This structure allows an LLM to answer questions such as “Does this draft bill include a power of entry?” or “Is there a sanction for failure to maintain records?” more reliably, reducing dependence on unstructured text interpretation. The current catalog contains 1,395 rules spanning enforcement, obligations, and sanctions, each linked to its source clause. Note that some structured fields reflect the LLM’s best-effort interpretation of the source text rather than verbatim content, and should be treated as indicative rather than authoritative. The catalog would of course benefit from adaptation to your jurisdiction’s specific needs and the topics you intend to cover. Some rules are sector-specific but have been retained, as they may inspire analogous rules in other sectors.
C. Top Documents for LLM reference
Markdown Documents
Cross-sectoral Standard Provisions;
List of Powers and Obligations;
List of Sanctions and Collateral Measures;
JSON Document
Rules catalog (to be adapted to the needs of your jurisdiction)