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MCP server for Maltese legislation (legislation.mt) with ELI and verifiable citations.

Access Maltese legislation with standardized citations and verifiable legislative references.

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mt-eli-mcp

An MCP server for the Maltese legislation portal legislation.mt, the official source of consolidated Maltese law. It fetches document metadata and full text, with verifiable citations.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line - after PL, DE, AT, ES, FI, IE, NL, SE, FR, LU, DK, CZ, HR, LT, SK and RO. Same citation contract, legislation.mt source. Malta is ELI-native; each page carries schema.org/ELI JSON-LD.

Scope. This MVP fetches a document's metadata (from JSON-LD) and full text by ELI coordinate (chapters, the Constitution, subsidiary legislation, Acts, Legal Notices). There is no free-text search; address documents by their ELI coordinate. Languages: English (eng) and Maltese (mlt). Every response carries a dataset_note.

Text comes from PDF. Malta publishes the consolidated text only as PDF. mt_get_text downloads the official PDF and extracts the text with pypdf; layout-dependent artefacts are possible. Every text response carries a text_note.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`mt_get_act`	Metadata for a document by ELI coordinate (JSON-LD).
`mt_get_text`	Full text by ELI coordinate (extracted from the official PDF).

ELI coordinates (eli): cap/586 (Chapter), const (Constitution), sl/586.01 (subsidiary legislation), act/2018/20 (Act), ln/2018/123 (Legal Notice).

Every response carries the contract: eli_uri (the legislation.mt URL, e.g. https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/586/eng), human_readable_citation (e.g. Data Protection Act (Cap. 586)), and source_url.

Install

Run it with no install step (once published to PyPI):

bash

uvx mt-eli-mcp

Or from source:

bash

cd mt-eli-mcp
pip install -e .

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mt-eli-mcp": { "command": "mt-eli-mcp" }
  }
}

Environment:

MT_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://legislation.mt
MT_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/mt-eli
MT_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key. legislation.mt is open data.

Governance

Public data only - read-only against legislation.mt; no client data leaves the machine.
Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/mt-eli-mcp.jsonl.
Vendor-neutral - talks only to legislation.mt; no LLM provider, no telemetry.
Verifiable citations - every response is independently checkable via source_url.

See CONSTITUTION.md and DISCOVERY.md.

Tests

bash

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/test_instructions_drift.py tests/test_parse.py -v   # offline
pytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                                    # hits live legislation.mt

Licence

Install

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mt-eli-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mt-eli-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}