About Rules as Code
Legislation and rules can be extremely difficult to understand and interpret. They often use complex legalese language and include multiple references to other legislation/policy. This means users may need to read many pieces of legislation/documents to understand one ‘rule’. By coding the law/rules, you can transform legislation and rules into simple-to-use digital experiences.
Known as ‘Rules as Code’ or ‘LegTech’ this innovative approach can be used for things like eligibility checking, compliance checking and creating digital policy twins for policy modelling.
Benefits of RaC for users
Reduces ambiguity
A clear and certain experience
More accessible
Helps users access rules and legislation without jargon
Highly transparent
Makes law, rules, organisations and government more transparent
Benefits of RaC organisations
Easier to manage
Once coded, rules are easier to manage and change
Reusable
A rules engine can be reused by multiple interfaces and systems
Model policy
RaC can model changes to see the real impacts