MozambiqueLEX Africa reports Decree No. 14/2026 created CNIA as a technical advisory body and that public consultation on Mozambique’s National AI Strategy continued until 4 June 2026. No AI statute or risk-classification rule was located.
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Mozambique
Early: one or two positionscivil lawupdated 2026-09-04researched 2026-09-04provisional
As of 4 September 2026 Mozambique has no legal-practice AI rule or court/bar guidance located. Decree No. 14/2026 created the National Commission for Artificial Intelligence as a government advisory body, and the national AI strategy was under public consultation in 2026; no enacted AI statute or data-protection authority guidance was found.
As of 2026-09-04, Mozambique has 0 binding rules, official guidance in 0 categories, 1 proposal and 0 positions set only by case law across the 20 categories in the map. In 19 categories we found nothing; in 0 the position is not yet determined.
How to read this page
- Binding rule Binding rule means a rule in force from a court, statute, regulator or equivalent authority.
- Official guidance Official guidance means an official non-binding position from a judiciary, regulator, bar or public body.
- Proposed / consultation Proposed / consultation means a public bill, draft rule or consultation that is not yet in force.
- Set by case law Set by case law means no rule was found, but courts have set the position in decisions.
- Nothing found Nothing found means the category was checked and no rule, guidance, proposal or case-law position was found.
- Not yet determined Not yet determined means research did not establish a reliable position yet.
The rules, category by category
No court rule, practice direction or reported case requiring disclosure or certification of AI use in filings was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case imposing a duty to verify AI-generated citations before filing or reliance was found as of 4 September 2026.
CNIA membership includes Supreme Court and Public Prosecutor representatives, but no judicial AI-use guidance or court rule was located.
No rule barring AI from adjudicative reasoning, sentencing, bail, credibility findings or judgment drafting was found as of 4 September 2026.
No court guidance for self-represented litigants using AI was found as of 4 September 2026.
No evidence rule or official guidance on authentication or admissibility of AI-generated or deepfake material was found as of 4 September 2026.
No bar or data-protection AI guidance restricting entry of client data into AI tools was found as of 4 September 2026.
No professional-conduct rule or guidance naming technology or AI competence for lawyers was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule or guidance on supervising AI-assisted legal work by staff or juniors was found as of 4 September 2026.
No requirement to inform clients about, or obtain consent for, lawyers’ AI use was found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, ethics opinion or guidance on billing for AI-assisted legal work was found as of 4 September 2026.
No regulator ruling or guidance on consumer AI legal services as unauthorised practice was found as of 4 September 2026.
No bar-association or law-society generative-AI guidance for practitioners was found as of 4 September 2026.
No court AI deployment policy was found. CNIA includes judicial representatives as policy stakeholders, but the fetched sources do not describe court use of AI systems.
INTIC covers cyber and data-governance functions, but no AI-specific data-protection guidance or standalone data-protection authority guidance for legal AI was located.
No decision sanctioning a lawyer or litigant for AI-fabricated citations or AI misuse in filings was found as of 4 September 2026.
No institutional arbitration or mediation rule or guideline on AI was found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training or continuing legal education requirement was found as of 4 September 2026.
No legal-sector AI procurement or vendor due-diligence rule or guidance was found as of 4 September 2026.
Official documents recorded for Mozambique (0)
- No documents recorded yet; category sources link the official pages.
Court incidents on the record in Mozambique
- Yichang District Court (Hubei)2026-07-21 Warning
Cite this page
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Mozambique" (updated 2026-09-04, AI-researched, provisional 2026-09-04), https://safelegalai.com/regulation/country/mz (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
SafeLegalAI is a research publication by Cognesio LLP, not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer–client relationship arises from reading it. Rules change; always check the official document linked on each record and take advice on your own situation. Researched and drafted with AI assistance; verified against primary sources and edited by Cognesio LLP. The linked official documents are the record — our summaries are not the law and are not legal advice.