Buying and Investing in Trinidad and Tobago
This replaces the general rule for you
CARICOM nationals are not foreign investors
Part VI of the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act 2005 redefined foreign investor in the Foreign Investment Act so that it means an individual who is not a national of Trinidad and Tobago or another Member State, and so that a firm or company is caught only where the people behind it are outside that class. A national of any CARICOM Member State is therefore outside the Act. The one-acre limit for residential land and the five-acre limit for business land do not apply to them, no licence is needed whatever the area, and the forfeiture provision in section 13 cannot reach them. One obligation does: section 10(1) requires the consideration for shares or for land acquired by a foreign investor or by a citizen of a Member State to be paid in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer. The drafter named the Member State citizen there expressly and nowhere else in the Act.
There is no citizenship by investment programme and no residence by investment programme. Money buys property, not status. The Foreign Investment Act lets a non-national acquire up to one acre of land for residence and up to five acres for trade or business without any licence at all, which is more generous than the alien landholding regimes of the Eastern Caribbean, where a licence is needed for the first square foot. Above those areas a licence from the President is required, and land or shares held without one are liable to forfeiture. The consideration has to be paid in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer, and that requirement reaches a citizen of a CARICOM Member State as well as a foreign investor - which is the only place in the Act where the two are treated alike. Owning land confers no immigration status whatever. The route to residence for an investor is the same section 6(1)(a) that everyone else uses: five years as a permitted entrant, establishment in a trade or business, and sufficient means.
At a glance
- Citizenship by investment
- None
The Foreign Investment Act says what a foreign investor may acquire and confers no status on anyone. The citizenship routes are in the Constitution and the Citizenship Act and are set out on the citizenship record; none of them turns on capital.
- Residence by investment
- None
Section 6(1)(a)(ii) of the Immigration Act, quoted here, is the only residence route open to an investor, and no provision of the Foreign Investment Act shortens it.
- Land for residence without a licence
- Up to 1 acre
Section 6(1) prints it in words - land, the area of which does not exceed one acre - which is the quotation on this record.
- Land for trade or business without a licence
- Up to 5 acres
Section 7 prints it in words - land the area of which does not exceed five acres - which is the quotation on this record.
- How the price must be paid
- In an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer
This applies to a citizen of a CARICOM Member State too, not only to a foreign investor.
- Penalty for holding without a licence where one is needed
- Forfeiture of the land or shares, and a fine of one hundred thousand dollars for causing the vesting
Requirements
- For land up to one acre for residence or five acres for trade or business: nothing but the purchase, plus notice of the vesting to the Minister in the form of the Third Schedule
- Above those areas, or in any area the Minister prescribes by Order: a licence granted by the President
- Payment of the consideration in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer
- For residence: the ordinary five-year establishment route under section 6(1)(a) of the Immigration Act
In detail
What a non-national may buy, and from whom
The Foreign Investment Act is a licensing statute with two large holes cut in it. Section 6(1) allows a foreign investor to acquire land not exceeding one acre for residential purposes without a licence; section 7 allows five acres for trade or business. Both are subject to the Minister's power under section 6(2) to prescribe areas in which a licence is needed anyway, and to his duty under section 6(3) to deliver any such Order to the Registrar General, who keeps a register of them. We did not find any such Order, which means the general permissions are the practical position, but that is a negative read off the subsidiary legislation index of the Chapter and the legal notices of 2022 to 2026 rather than a search of the whole Gazette back to 1990. Above the thresholds the licence is granted by the President, is specific to the land or shares named in it, and has no effect until registered.
The CARICOM carve-out, and its limit
Part VI of the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act 2005 redefined foreign investor so that it excludes a national of any CARICOM Member State and any firm or company controlled by such nationals. A Barbadian or a Guyanese buying a house in Trinidad is therefore not within the Act at all, and the acreage limits do not apply to them. One obligation survives the carve-out: section 10(1), which requires the consideration for shares or for land acquired by a foreign investor or by a citizen of a Member State to be paid in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer. The drafter named the Member State citizen expressly there and nowhere else, so the exemption from the licensing regime is not an exemption from the currency rule.
What investment does not buy
Nothing in the Foreign Investment Act, the Immigration Act or the Immigration Regulations attaches any immigration consequence to acquiring land, shares or a business. There is no investor category in the list of permitted entrants in section 9(1) and no investor paragraph in the list of people who may be granted resident status in section 6(1). The nearest thing is section 6(1)(a), under which a permitted entrant who has established himself in a self-operating business and has sufficient means may be granted resident status after five continuous years. An investor is in the same queue as an employee, and the capital shortens nothing. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the two large CARICOM states without an investment citizenship programme of any kind, and the absence here is of a different sort from Barbados's: Barbados has a special entry permit for high net worth individuals, and Trinidad and Tobago has nothing at all.
Country-level policy
Every page of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago published on the Ministry of the Attorney General's site carries two lines of its own: UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016. Both are true and both matter. The Law Revision Act makes the Law Revision Commission responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the revised edition; section 5 says the Laws shall be published in loose-leaf form or in such other form as the Commission may determine; section 6 provides that every page must be authorised for inclusion by Order and that every page so authorised, and no other, shall form part of the Laws; and section 15 makes those authorised pages, in all Courts and for all purposes, the proper Statute Book. The web PDFs do not claim to be those pages. Their Current Authorised Pages table has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. and the column is empty. In May 2026 Parliament passed an Act to fix this - the Law Revision (Amendment) Act, which would let the Minister designate a website as the sole official website and make a download from it deemed official and authoritative, prevailing over the loose-leaf where they differ. It was assented on 15 May 2026 and comes into operation on such date as is fixed by the President by Proclamation. No such Proclamation appears among the 822 legal notices of 2026.
What applies to you
CARICOM nationals are not foreign investors
Part VI of the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act 2005 redefined foreign investor in the Foreign Investment Act so that it means an individual who is not a national of Trinidad and Tobago or another Member State, and so that a firm or company is caught only where the people behind it are outside that class. A national of any CARICOM Member State is therefore outside the Act. The one-acre limit for residential land and the five-acre limit for business land do not apply to them, no licence is needed whatever the area, and the forfeiture provision in section 13 cannot reach them. One obligation does: section 10(1) requires the consideration for shares or for land acquired by a foreign investor or by a citizen of a Member State to be paid in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer. The drafter named the Member State citizen there expressly and nowhere else in the Act.
- Nationality of a CARICOM Member State
- Payment of the consideration in an internationally traded currency through an authorised dealer
What the law says
«6. (1) Subject to subsection (2) a foreign investor may Land for
residence only.
acquire land, the area of which does not exceed one acre for [17 of 2007].
residential purposes without obtaining a licence under this Act.»Quoted as printed: the marginal note and the amendment reference sit inside the text column.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«7. Subject to section 6(2) and (3), a foreign investor may acquire Land for trade
or business.
land the area of which does not exceed five acres for the purposes [17 of 2007].
of trade or business without obtaining a licence under this Act.»About this source
The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«10. (1) The consideration for shares or for land acquired by a
to pay in foreign
currency. foreign investor or by a citizen of a Member State shall be paid in
an internationally traded currency through a person authorised by
law as a dealer in that foreign currency except where in the case of
a company incorporated in Trinidad and Tobago such consideration
is financed out of capital reserves or retained earnings generated
from its operations in Trinidad and Tobago.»Quoted as printed: the marginal note sits inside the text column. The words or by a citizen of a Member State are the ones that matter here.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«13. (1) Save as provided in section 4, 5, 6 or 7 or as otherwise
not holding
a licence. provided in this Act no land or shares may be acquired or held by
a foreign investor without a licence granted under this Act.»About this source
The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«“foreign investor” means—
(a) an individual who is not a national of Trinidad
and Tobago or another Member State;»A national of any CARICOM Member State is outside the definition and so outside the Act. That was done by Part VI of the Caribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act 2005.
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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«(ii) has been continuously resident in Trinidad
and Tobago for five years or such shorter
period (not being less than twelve months)
as the Minister may in the special
circumstances of any particular case accept;»The only residence route an investor has. No provision anywhere shortens it for capital.
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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Practical notes
A foreign investor acquiring land under the one-acre or five-acre permissions must still give notice of the vesting to the Minister in duplicate in the form of the Third Schedule, through his attorney, and the Minister returns the duplicate within seven days.
Section 11 makes it an offence to hold land or shares in trust for an unlicensed foreign investor without the President's licence, so the obvious workaround is addressed in the Act itself.
The claim that there is no investment citizenship or residence programme rests on the Immigration Act and Regulations, the Citizenship of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Act, the Foreign Investment Act, the Digital Legislative Library's alphabetical register of Acts to 2026 and its chronological list of legal notices for 2022 to 2026. It is not a claim to have read the whole statute book.
- consolidatesForeign Investment Act, Chapter 70:07
Law Revision Commission, Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago · consolidated to 2016-12-31
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The Commission established by section 3 of the Law Revision Act, Chap. 3:03, whose statutory function under section 4 is to prepare, publish and maintain the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves the whole statute book as one PDF per Chapter from a flat path, each file carrying the Chapter number as its name, together with the subsidiary legislation made under that Act printed behind it and an index of it on the front. The Constitution is served separately. This is where every consolidated Chapter cited for this country comes from: the Immigration Act 18:01 with the Immigration Regulations, the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act 18:03, the Citizenship Act 1:50, the Income Tax Act 75:01, the Caribbean Community Act 81:11 with the whole Revised Treaty as its Schedule, the Customs Act 78:01, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act 48:50 with the 1986 driving exemption Notice, the Foreign Investment Act 70:07, the Exchange Control Act 79:50, the Proceeds of Crime Act 11:27 with the Financial Obligations Regulations, the Health Surcharge Act 75:05 and the Regional Health Authorities Act 29:05.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 18:01
Law Revision Commission, Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago · consolidated to 2016-12-31
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It says on every page that it is not the law. Each page carries the words UNOFFICIAL VERSION and UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016, and the Current Authorised Pages table on the front of each Chapter has a column headed Authorised by L.R.O. which is empty. Under sections 6 and 15 of the Law Revision Act only pages authorised by a Law Revision Order form part of the Laws and are the proper Statute Book, so these files are a copy and not the edition. It must therefore never be cited as the authentic text, and never for the law after 31 December 2016: the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) Act printed here is the pre-2022 text, in which sections 3 and 4 are the other way round from the sections now in force, and the Income Tax Act printed here states a personal allowance of seventy-two thousand dollars that has twice been raised since. It must also not be used for commencement after that date, because no instrument later than the cut-off appears in it at all. Its layout sets each section's marginal note inside the text column rather than in a margin, so a section number usually sits in the middle of a line and a sentence is interrupted by the note's words; quotations have to reproduce that, and our own check for sections an edition lists and does not print reports these Chapters as incomplete when they are not. Its server sends an incomplete TLS chain, so a plain client rejects it until the GeoTrust intermediate is supplied.
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- issuesCaribbean Community (Removal of Restrictions) Act, 2005 (Act No. 2 of 2005)
Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago
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Cannot be cited for: Its consolidated Acts are the same edition as the Law Revision Commission's, updated to 31 December 2016, and it labels its own post-2006 versions Unofficial Update; it must not be cited for the current text of any Act. Its Unproclaimed Acts page is captioned Acts not in operation as at December 2015 and must not be read as current. Its download addresses are opaque numeric identifiers with no relation to the Act or Notice number, so an instrument cannot be reached without going through a listing first, and the year filter on the legal notices page works only by HTTP POST - a year in the query string is silently ignored and the current year is served instead, which is how a reading can appear to cover 2023 and in fact cover 2026. Its full-text search returns results in a sidebar without the document, so an apparently empty result is not evidence of absence.
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