Becoming a Citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Dominica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Dominica to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Becoming a citizen
The Constitution does most of the work. Birth in the country makes a citizen; birth abroad to a Vincentian parent makes a citizen, but only for one generation. Marriage to a citizen is an entitlement to be registered rather than a discretion, and so is seven years of ordinary residence - but only for a Commonwealth citizen. For everyone else the Constitution says simply that Parliament shall provide, and what Parliament provided is the Citizenship Act, Chapter 117, which is not published. There is no citizenship by investment. The House of Assembly's own record of every Act passed since 1993 contains no such Act, and the Constitution's citizenship chapter has no economic or honourary limb anywhere in it. What there is, since December 2025, is a portfolio: the Governor-General's assignment of subjects to the new Prime Minister ends with the words "Citizenship by Investment Programmes".
At a glance
- Citizenship by investment
- No programme and no Act
The House of Assembly's record of Acts from 1993 to 2025 contains four amendments to the Citizenship Act - in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2023 - and one Act conferring citizenship on named cricketers, and nothing resembling an investment or economic citizenship Act. Every other independent member of the OECS has one.
- Citizenship by investment as a portfolio
- Assigned to the Prime Minister on 2 December 2025
The last line of the Schedule to the Governor-General's assignment of subjects to Prime Minister Godwin Friday, published in the Gazette of 30 December 2025, and repeated in the assignment to the acting Prime Minister published on 3 March 2026. A subject of government, not a programme: no enabling Act has been passed.
- Residence for registration
- 7 years, for a Commonwealth citizen
Section 93(2)(b) of the Constitution. It is an entitlement - "shall be entitled, upon making application, to be registered" - not a discretion. For a non-Commonwealth applicant the Constitution provides nothing and leaves it to Parliament.
- Marriage
- Entitlement to registration, with no residence period
Sections 93(1)(a) and 93(2)(a). The Constitution states no qualifying period, no cohabitation test and no interview.
- Descent
- One generation
Section 92. A child born abroad is a citizen if a parent is a citizen otherwise than by descent, so the chain stops with the first generation born abroad.
- Statute
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Citizenship Act, Chapter 117
Named and dated by the House of Assembly's record of Act No. 19 of 2023, which amends it. The Act itself is not published; a 2001 amendment refers to it as Cap. 80, which was its number in the Revised Edition 1990.
- Dual citizenship
- Not established
Nothing in the Constitution's citizenship chapter prohibits it and section 94(c) leaves renunciation to Parliament. The Citizenship Act is where the answer would be and it is not published.
Requirements
- By birth: born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after 27 October 1979, unless neither parent is a citizen and a parent has diplomatic immunity, or the father is a citizen of a country at war with Saint Vincent and the birth occurs in occupied territory
- By descent: born abroad with a father or mother who is a citizen otherwise than by descent
- By registration on marriage: married to a citizen, or formerly married to someone who was a citizen during the marriage
- By registration after residence: a Commonwealth citizen who has been ordinarily resident for the seven years before the application
- On registration, where the applicant is an alien, a British protected person or a prescribed Commonwealth citizen aged 21 or over: the oath of allegiance
- By naturalisation for anyone else: under the Citizenship Act, Chapter 117, which we could not read
In detail
There is no citizenship by investment, and this is what that is based on
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the only independent member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States for which the records here hold no citizenship by investment programme - Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia each have one - and the claim is usually made from commentary. What it is based on here is two readings. First, the Constitution's citizenship chapter, sections 90 to 95: it provides for birth, descent, marriage, residence by a Commonwealth citizen, and children, and then section 94 says there shall be such provision as may be made by Parliament for the acquisition of citizenship by persons not eligible under the chapter. There is no economic, investment or honourary limb in the chapter itself; what there is, is a power given to Parliament. Second, the House of Assembly's own record of every Act passed from 1993 to 2025. It records four amendments to the Citizenship Act - No. 21 of 1996, No. 35 of 2001, No. 11 of 2006 and No. 19 of 2023 - and one Act conferring citizenship on the 1975 West Indies cricket team. There is no Act establishing a programme of any kind.
A portfolio appeared in December 2025
On 2 December 2025 the Governor-General assigned to the new Prime Minister, Godwin Friday, the subjects of his office. The Schedule runs from the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Secretariat through citizenship, residency, work permits and alien's landholding licences, through finance, taxation and the law courts, and ends with the Government Printery and then "Citizenship by Investment Programmes". The same line appears in the assignment to the acting Prime Minister published on 3 March 2026. That is a subject of government, not a programme: nothing in the 2026 Gazettes, which record Acts 1 to 12 of 2026 and statutory orders 1 to 15, establishes one. What it does say is that the question is live, and that a reader should not treat the absence as permanent.
What the Constitution gives, and to whom
Three entitlements matter to someone moving here. A spouse of a citizen is entitled to be registered, with no qualifying period stated anywhere in the chapter. A Commonwealth citizen ordinarily resident for the seven years before the application is entitled to be registered. And a child under twenty-one who is the stepchild or adopted child of a citizen is entitled to be registered. Each of those is "shall be entitled, upon making application" - the Constitution does not leave them to discretion. The limit is the Commonwealth. An applicant from outside it has no constitutional route at all, and must rely on whatever Parliament has provided in the Citizenship Act, Chapter 117, which is sold on paper and published nowhere.
What the published Constitution is, and is not
The text read here is Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990, which prints the United Kingdom statutory instrument S.I. 1979 No. 916 as amended by Act 21 of 1986 and Act 15 of 1988. It is the edition before the current one: Parliament's own records now cite the Revised Edition 2009, in which the Citizenship Act is Chapter 117 where a 2001 Act called it Chapter 80. The House of Assembly publishes the Constitution Order as a twenty-one page scan with no text layer, so the text quoted here is a recognition of a printed page republished by the Organization of American States, and the recognition's own errors are left in the quotations.
Country-level policy
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the one independent member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States that does not sell citizenship. That has been true throughout the period Parliament's own record covers: no Act establishing any such programme appears among the Acts passed between 1993 and 2025, and the Constitution's citizenship chapter has no economic or honourary limb. But on 2 December 2025, after a change of government, the Governor-General assigned the subjects of the Prime Minister's office and the list ends with "Citizenship by Investment Programmes". A subject of government now exists for something that has no statute.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines publishes the fact of its laws and not their text. The Ministry of Legal Affairs puts every weekly Gazette online back to 2016, and each Gazette names the Acts and statutory rules and orders published that week - then says they can be purchased at the Government Printing Office at Campden Park. The House of Assembly publishes a table of every Act passed since 1993, with its long title, its short title, the dates of its readings, assent, publication and any proclamation, and its number. Neither publishes a section of an Act. The Immigration (Restriction) Act, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act, the Citizenship Act, the Employment of Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens Act and the Aliens (Land Holding Regulation) Act are all unreadable from outside the country, and every one of them governs something on this site.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Dominica
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«**91.** Every person born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after
the commencement of this Constitution shall become a citizen at the
date of his birth:»Birth in the country, with two exceptions in the proviso: a child neither of whose parents is a citizen and one of whose parents has diplomatic immunity, and a child whose father is a citizen of a country at war with Saint Vincent born in territory that country occupies.
«**92.** A person born outside Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after
the commencement of this Constitution shall become a citizen at the
date of his birth if, at that date, his father or mother is a citizen otherwise than by virtue of this section or section 90(3) of this Constitution.»"otherwise than by virtue of this section" is what limits descent to one generation: a parent who is themselves a citizen by descent cannot pass it on.
«(2) The following persons shall be entitled, upon making application, to be registered as citizens-»"shall be entitled" governs the whole of the subsection. These are rights to registration, not applications a minister weighs.
«any person who, being a Commonwealth citizen, is and
for seven years previous to his application has been
ordinarily resident in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;»Seven years of ordinary residence, and the qualification that does the real work is "being a Commonwealth citizen". A seven-year resident from outside the Commonwealth has no constitutional entitlement at all.
«(4) Every person who, being a British protected person, an alien
or, if it is so prescribed by Parliament, a citizen of any country within
the Commonwealth not forming part of Her Majesty's dominions and
having reached the age of twentyone years, applies for registration
under this section shall, before such registration, take the oath of
allegiance.»Quoted with the edition's "twentyone".
«94. There shall be such provision as may be made by Parliament
for-
(a) the acquisition of citizenship by persons who are not
eligible or who are no longer eligible to become citizens
under the provisions of this Chapter:»This is the whole of the constitutional authority for naturalisation, and it is also the only door through which a citizenship by investment programme could be created. It is permissive and addressed to Parliament: it confers nothing by itself, and Parliament has not used it for that purpose.
«Citizenship by Investment Programmes»The last subject in the Schedule to the Governor-General's assignment to Prime Minister Godwin Friday, given on 2 December 2025 and published on 30 December 2025. A portfolio with no statute under it.
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The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.
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Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.
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«By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by Section 53 of the Saint Vincent Constitution
Order, 1979, and acting in accordance with the advice of the Honourable Prime Minister, I hereby
assign to you **GODWIN FRIDAY,** Prime Minister and Minister, responsibility for the business of
the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and administration of the departments of
Government set out in the Schedule hereto:»The operative words of the assignment, so the list that follows is read as what it is: an allocation of responsibility under section 53 of the Constitution.
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The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.
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«| An Act to amend the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Citizenship Act,Chapter 117 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition,2009 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Citizenship(Amendment) Act 2023 | 13thJuly,2023 | 7thSeptember,2023 | 18thSeptember,2023 | 19thSeptember,2023 | | No.19 of 2023 |»The most recent amendment and the entry that establishes the Act's chapter number. The gap between the first reading in July and the second in September is the longest in that year's record.
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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«| Bill for an Act to amend the SVG Citizenship Act, Cap. 80 and validate the collection of certain acquisition, registration and renunciation of citizenship goes | | 17. 10. 01 | 17. 10. 01 | 14. 12. 01 | 18. 12. 01 | | No. 35 of 2001 |»Quoted as printed, including "goes", which appears to be the record's error for "fees". The Act validated the collection of fees already taken, which is what a government does when it has been charging for something without authority.
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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«An Act to provide for the conferral of citizenship on the surviving members of the 1975 Men»Citizenship conferred by an Act of Parliament on named individuals - the 1975 Men's West Indies World Cup cricket team - rather than by any general route. It is the only grant of citizenship by statute in the record, and it is honorary in substance without using the word.
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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Practical notes
The statement that no citizenship by investment legislation exists rests on the House of Assembly's published record of Acts for each year from 1993 to 2025, read in full, and on the Gazettes for 2025 and 2026, which list every Act and statutory rule and order published in those years. It does not extend before 1993: Parliament's online record begins there, and an economic citizenship provision enacted or repealed earlier would not appear in it. The Citizenship Act itself, Chapter 117, has not been read.
No fee for registration or naturalisation is published. The 2001 amending Act validated the collection of fees for acquisition, registration and renunciation of citizenship, so fees exist; the instrument that sets them was not found in any source we could reach.
Whether Saint Vincent and the Grenadines permits dual citizenship is not answered by the Constitution, which leaves renunciation to Parliament in section 94(c). The answer is in the Citizenship Act and we have not read it. Nothing here should be taken as saying dual citizenship is or is not allowed.
- reportsConstitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990
Organization of American States - Department of International Law · consolidated to 1990
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The OAS legal portal republishes the constitutions and some statutes of member states. It carries the Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as Chapter 2 of the Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Revised Edition 1990, printing United Kingdom S.I. 1979 No. 916 as amended by Act 21 of 1986 and Act 15 of 1988 - the only copy of the Vincentian Constitution with a text layer that we could reach, the House of Assembly's own copy being an imageless scan.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It is a republisher and must never be cited for currency: the file is the 1990 edition, while Saint Vincent's own Acts now cite the Revised Edition 2009, in which chapter numbers have moved. The PDF is a two-up optical recognition of a printed book and its text layer carries recognition errors, so every quotation taken from it must be declared as a recognition and must be left with its errors intact. It must not be cited for any instrument other than the one it reproduces.
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- issuesGazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 158 No. 69, 30 December 2025
Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Official Gazette, Ministry of Legal Affairs and Justice
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The State's gazette, published weekly and archived online from 2016. Each issue opens with a Legislations notice naming every Act and every Statutory Rule and Order published that week, and carries Governor-General's notices, including the assignment of departments and subjects to each Minister under section 53 of the Constitution. It is the authoritative record that an instrument exists and of the date it was published.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.
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- reportsRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2023
House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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- reportsRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2001
House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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- reportsRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 1996
House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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- reportsRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2006
House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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- reportsRecord of Acts passed by the House of Assembly, 2025
House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Parliament's own record. Publishes, for every year from 1993 to 2025, a table of every Act passed: long title, short title, dates of first reading, second and third readings, assent, publication and proclamation, and the Act number. Also publishes the Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979. This table is the only published index of Vincentian legislation and is what establishes that an Act exists, what it amends, which Chapter it belongs to and exactly when it came into force.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what an Act says. It carries no text of any Act and never has. It must not be cited for anything before 1993, where its record begins, nor for 2026, for which no table has yet been posted - use the Gazette's weekly legislation notices for that. The proclamation column is empty for almost every Act, which means a proclamation is not recorded, not that commencement did not happen; where it is filled, as for Act No. 22 of 2011, it is reliable. Extraction of the date columns is unreliable: the 2006, 2011 and 2024 tables render some dates as formulas and the 2025 table uses full-width commas, so a date quoted from them should be checked against the PDF. The Constitution Order it publishes is a 21-page scan with no text layer.
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- issuesGazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vol. 159 No. 19, 28 April 2026
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for the content of an Act or a Statutory Rule and Order. The notice says in terms that the instruments 'can be purchased at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park Industrial Estate' - the issue announces them and does not contain them. A handful of Statutory Rules and Orders are posted as separate PDFs beside the 2026 issues; most are not. It must also not be cited for anything before 2016, which is where the online archive starts. File names are not a reliable guide to contents: the file named Gazette_No50_2025.pdf contains issue No. 40 of 30 July 2025.
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