nz-legal-qa

NZ Legal QA Dataset

Instruction-tuning dataset of question-answer pairs about New Zealand law, covering 75 different legal acts and areas.

Dataset Description

171 Q&A pairs generated from actual NZ legislation text, covering:

• Resource Management Act 1991 (29 pairs)
• Crimes Act 1961 (14 pairs)
• Employment Relations Act 2000 (10 pairs)
• Privacy Act 1993 (7 pairs)
• Human Rights Act 1993 (7 pairs)
• Immigration Act 2009 (5 pairs)
• And 70+ other acts and legal areas

Format

ShareGPT conversation format, compatible with Unsloth, Axolotl, and most fine-tuning frameworks:

{
  "conversations": [
    {"from": "human", "value": "What is the purpose of the RMA?"},
    {"from": "gpt", "value": "The purpose of the RMA is..."}
  ],
  "source": "Resource Management Act 1991"
}

Intended Use

Fine-tuning small language models (1-7B parameters) for New Zealand legal question-answering. Best results when the model already has general legal reasoning capability.

Source

Questions and answers grounded in New Zealand legislation text from legislation.govt.nz (open data, publicly accessible). Answers are interpretive and educational — not legal advice.