Visiting Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago answers the visa question by rule rather than by list. Regulation 13(5) of the Immigration Regulations requires a visa in the passport of everyone seeking to enter; regulation 13(8) then takes the requirement away from citizens of Commonwealth countries, from nationals of countries with which Trinidad and Tobago has concluded Visa Abolition Agreements, and from two classes of transit passenger. Regulation 13(11) puts it back for the countries in the Second Schedule, and that Schedule names four: Cuba, Macedonia, North Korea and Vietnam. There is no statutory period of stay for a visitor. Section 9(1) of the Immigration Act lets an immigration officer admit tourists or visitors on such conditions and for such periods as may be fit and proper in the particular case, and the certificate the officer issues carries whatever period he wrote on it. Extending it means submitting to a fresh examination even though you are already in the country. A stay longer than one year requires a medical certificate on Form 40 before entry. Visas are now bought online: the Immigration Division charges TT$800 for a multiple-entry visa, which is the figure the Seventh Schedule to the Regulations has prescribed since 1 January 2026.
At a glance
- Period a visitor is given
- Whatever the immigration officer decides
Section 9(1) sets no maximum and no minimum. The certificate issued under section 9(2) states the period.
- Countries for which a visa is compulsory whatever else applies
- Four: Cuba, Macedonia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Vietnam
Second Schedule to the Immigration Regulations, last substituted by LN 120/2015 and read as at 31 December 2016.
- Multiple-entry visa
- TT$800as of 2026-01-01
Seventh Schedule to the Immigration Regulations as substituted by LN 493 of 2025. The Immigration Division's eVisa page charges the same.
- Visa waiver granted at the port of entry
- TT$800as of 2026-01-01
Fourth Schedule item (vi) as substituted by LN 493 of 2025. Citizens of CARICOM countries do not get the half-rate on this item.
- In-transit pass
- Up to 14 days
Regulation 13(9)(a) prints it in words - a period not exceeding fourteen days - which is the quotation on this record.
- Medical certificate
- Required before any admission for more than one year
- Extending a stay
- A fresh examination, as if seeking entry for the first time
- Arrival and departure declaration
- Required of all passengers and crew, electronically or on paperas of 2026-01-01
Section 37A of the Immigration Act, inserted by the Finance Act 2025 and in force since 1 January 2026.
Requirements
- A passport issued by the country of which you are a subject or citizen, valid at least for the duration of the stay
- A visa, unless you are a citizen of a Commonwealth country or a national of a country with a Visa Abolition Agreement - and in every case if you are a national of Cuba, Macedonia, North Korea or Vietnam
- Satisfying the immigration officer that you are not within a prohibited class under section 8 of the Immigration Act
- A medical certificate on Form 40 if you will be admitted for longer than one year
In detail
The rule, not the list
Most Caribbean states in this comparison answer the visa question with a table. Trinidad and Tobago answers it with three regulations that have to be read together, and the table its Immigration Division publishes is downstream of them. Regulation 13(5) requires a visa of everyone. Regulation 13(8) removes the requirement from citizens of Commonwealth countries and from nationals of countries with a Visa Abolition Agreement. Regulation 13(11) restores it, absolutely, for the countries in the Second Schedule. The practical consequence is that the answer for any given nationality depends on whether an agreement exists, and the agreements themselves are not published as a list. The Division's own list of visa-free countries, revised in September 2024, names forty-two and is almost entirely Commonwealth: it does not include the United States, France, Germany or any other European Union state, whose nationals are in practice admitted without a visa. The exemption those travellers rely on is paragraph (b), and we could not find the instruments behind it.
How long you may stay
Nothing states a period. Section 9(1) of the Immigration Act gives the immigration officer a discretion to admit a visitor on such conditions and for such periods as may be fit and proper in any particular case, and section 9(2) requires a certificate expressed to be in force for a specified period. That is the whole of it. There is no ninety-day entitlement in the statute book, no six-month ceiling of the kind the Barbadian Immigration Act prints in its Second Schedule, and no rule about days in a rolling window. What the traveller gets is what the officer wrote. Extending it is governed by section 9(3), which requires submitting to an examination notwithstanding that the applicant is already in the country, and expressly allows the officer to deal with him as if he were seeking entry for the first time - so an extension is a new decision, not the continuation of an old one.
The one date in the system
Anyone admitted for more than a year has to produce a medical certificate on Form 40 before entry, showing an examination sufficient to establish that they are not within the mental-health, infectious-disease, physical-disability, alcohol or drug paragraphs of section 8(1). This is a threshold on the length of the admission rather than on the purpose of the visit, so it reaches a long visitor as much as a worker.
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.
The Immigration (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 revoked and substituted four Schedules to the Immigration Regulations with effect from 1 January 2026. Set against what they replaced, every figure that survived is exactly twice what it was. The work permit application went from TT$600 to TT$1,200 and the monthly charge from TT$450 to TT$900 with the minimum from TT$1,350 to TT$2,700; the Certificate of Residence from TT$400 to TT$800 for a CARICOM national and from TT$1,000 to TT$2,000 for everyone else; the Student's Permit from TT$200 to TT$400; the Visa Waiver from TT$400 to TT$800; the Change of Status from TT$100 to TT$200; ship clearance from TT$100 to TT$200 for the first three hours. One item did not double: the Certificate for Facilitation of Entry, which had cost TT$100 for a CARICOM national and TT$500 for anyone else, was dropped from the Schedule entirely and the remaining items renumbered. The half-rate for citizens of CARICOM countries survived, and its cross-references were correctly updated to the new numbering.
Exceptions by origin
CARICOM nationals: no visa, and six months as a visitor
Every one of these states is on the Immigration Division's list of countries whose citizens do not require entry visas, and each of them is also a Commonwealth country, which brings its citizens within the exemption in regulation 13(8)(a) of the Immigration Regulations independently of the list. None of them is in the Second Schedule, so the reversal in regulation 13(11) does not reach them. Beyond the visa, the CARICOM free movement booklet that the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs publishes states that a CARICOM national arriving without a skills certificate is granted six months with the status of a visitor. That is the regional arrangement rather than a provision of the Immigration Act, which fixes no period for anyone; section 9(1) leaves the period to the immigration officer in every case.
- A passport issued by the member state
- Nothing more, for entry as a visitor
What the law says
«(5) Subject to subregulation (8), the passport or other
travel document of every person who seeks to enter Trinidad and
Tobago shall carry where required, the visa of a diplomatic or
consular officer of Trinidad and Tobago or, where Trinidad and
Tobago is not so represented, of a diplomatic or consular officer
of the country that acts on behalf of Trinidad and Tobago in the
country of issue.»The general rule is that a visa is required. Everything a traveller recognises as visa-free access to Trinidad and Tobago is an exception to this subregulation.
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«(8) Subregulation (5) shall not apply to—
(a) citizens of Commonwealth countries;
(b) nationals of countries with which Trinidad
and Tobago has concluded Visa Abolition
Agreements;»Paragraph (b) is where nationals of states outside the Commonwealth become visa-free, and no list of the Visa Abolition Agreements is published anywhere we read. Paragraphs (c) and (d), not quoted here, cover transit.
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«Nothing contained in subregulation (8) or (9) shall
apply or be deemed to apply to the nationals or citizens of the
Second countries set out in the Second Schedule and every such national
Schedule.
or citizen shall, notwithstanding anything in these Regulations
expressed or implied to the contrary, be in possession of a valid
and subsisting visa required by subregulation (5).»This overrides the Commonwealth exemption and the visa waiver alike.
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«Countries for which visas are compulsory—
120/2015].
Cuba
Macedonia
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Vietnam»Quoted as printed: the publisher sets the legal notice reference LN 120/2015 inside the text column, between the heading and the first country.
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«9. (1) An immigration officer may allow to enter Trinidad Permitted
and Tobago on such conditions and for such periods as may be fit entrants.
and proper in any particular case, the following persons or classes 47
[24 of 1978
of 1980
of persons, as the case may be:
2 of 2005].
(a) persons who are diplomatic or consular officers
or representatives or officials duly accredited, of
any country, or of the United Nations or any of
its agencies or of any inter-governmental
organisation in which Trinidad and Tobago
participates, coming to Trinidad and Tobago to
carry out their official duties or passing through
in transit, or members of the suites or families of
such persons;
UNOFFICIAL VERSION L.R.O.
UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016
LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
16 Chap. 18:01 Immigration
MINISTRY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS www.legalaffairs.gov.tt
(b) members of any naval, army or air forces who
come to Trinidad and Tobago for training or
otherwise in connection with the defence and
security interests of Trinidad and Tobago, or under
the provisions of any treaty or agreement between
Trinidad and Tobago and another country and
whose entry into Trinidad and Tobago is approved
by the Minister, together with such members of
their families or suites as may be approved;
(c) tourists or visitors;»Quoted as printed: the publisher's marginal notes and amendment references sit inside the text column. The discretion is the point - no period is fixed anywhere in the Act or the Regulations.
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«(3) Every person who has a certificate under subsection (2)
to enter Trinidad and Tobago and who wishes to remain for a
longer period than that previously granted or to have the conditions
attaching to his entry varied, shall, notwithstanding that he is already
in Trinidad and Tobago, submit to an examination under the»The sentence continues on the next page of the publisher's PDF, after the page furniture, with the words that the immigration officer may extend or limit the period of stay or deal with the applicant as if he were seeking entry for the first time.
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«(12) No person shall be permitted to enter Trinidad and
Tobago for a period exceeding one year, who is not in possession
Form 40. of a medical certificate set out as Form 40 showing that such
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
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«(i) Multiple Entry Visa … … … … … 800.00»Made under section 44 of the Immigration Act and subject to negative resolution. The Regulations state their own effect from 1 January 2026.
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«37A. (1) All passengers and crew
by persons
entering or
seeking to enter Trinidad and
leaving Tobago shall be required to report to
Trinidad and
Tobago an immigration officer at a place to
be determined by him and to
complete and submit an arrival
declaration, in such form and
manner as may be approved by the
Chief Immigration Officer and to
submit their travel documents and
other papers for examination.»Quoted as printed: the publisher sets the marginal note Declarations by persons entering or leaving Trinidad and Tobago inside the text column, so its words interrupt the sentence. The same section lets the Chief Immigration Officer disclose what is in a declaration to the Comptroller of Customs.
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Standing: Issues the instrument
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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«23. (1) Sections 4, 6(a), (b), (c) and (d), 7, 9, 10(e) and Commencement
(i), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19(b), (c) and (d), 20(b), and 21(a),
(b), (u) and (v) come into force on 1st January, 2026.»Section 4 is the Immigration Act amendment. It is in force.
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The Government's legislative database at laws.gov.tt. It carries three things nothing else does: a chronological list of Legal Notices and Government Notices from 1838 to 2026, each downloadable as the Government Printer's PDF of the Legal Supplement; an alphabetical and chronological register of Acts and Ordinances from 1838 to 2026 with commencement dates; and lists of Acts by status, including unproclaimed Acts. This is where the Proclamation bringing parts of the 2022 CARICOM Act into force, the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Immigration Regulations amendments, the work permit exemption Orders and every Finance Act from 2017 to 2026 were read. Documents are reached by a numeric download identifier rather than by name.
Standing: Issues the instrument
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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Practical notes
The Immigration Division's visa-free list is undated on its face; the file name and the directory it sits in are the only indication of when it was put up, and the directory is September 2024. An earlier and longer list, in a February 2024 directory, is still served from the same site and includes Ireland and a dozen overseas territories that the later one drops. Neither says which replaced which.
Visa fees are prescribed in Trinidad and Tobago dollars by the Immigration Regulations, not in United States dollars at the counter. The Immigration Division's eVisa page charges the Seventh Schedule figure exactly, which is a rarer thing in this comparison than it should be.
Bona fide operating crew of aircraft and seagoing vessels do not require a visa whatever their nationality, which the Division states on its eVisa page and the Regulations reach through regulation 13(8)(c).
Since 1 January 2026 every passenger and crew member entering or leaving has had to complete an arrival or departure declaration in the form the Chief Immigration Officer approves. It may be submitted electronically, in which case a data message confirming the submission must be presented to the officer, and the electronic record is admissible and prima facie evidence of what was declared. The Chief Immigration Officer may pass what is in it to the Comptroller of Customs.
This record rests on the Immigration Act Chapter 18:01 and the Immigration Regulations as published in the Revised Laws updated to 31 December 2016, on the Immigration (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025, and on the Immigration Division's eVisa page and visa-free list. We did not find and did not read any Visa Abolition Agreement.
- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 18:01, with the Immigration Regulations
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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- issuesImmigration (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2025 (Legal Notice No. 493 of 2025)
Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago
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The Government's legislative database at laws.gov.tt. It carries three things nothing else does: a chronological list of Legal Notices and Government Notices from 1838 to 2026, each downloadable as the Government Printer's PDF of the Legal Supplement; an alphabetical and chronological register of Acts and Ordinances from 1838 to 2026 with commencement dates; and lists of Acts by status, including unproclaimed Acts. This is where the Proclamation bringing parts of the 2022 CARICOM Act into force, the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Immigration Regulations amendments, the work permit exemption Orders and every Finance Act from 2017 to 2026 were read. Documents are reached by a numeric download identifier rather than by name.
Standing: Issues the instrument
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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- administersList of Countries Whose Citizens Do Not Require Entry Visas for Trinidad and Tobago
Ministry of Homeland Security of Trinidad and Tobago - Immigration Division
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The ministry that applies the Immigration Act. It took the immigration portfolio from the Ministry of National Security, whose address now redirects here. Its pages set out the work permit process, including the requirement that applications for one to nine permits go through the TTBizLink portal and that applications for ten or more use a single group form, the eVisa and eStudent Permit services with the fees charged for each, the list of countries whose citizens do not require entry visas, and the passport fees and documents.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It states practice and not law. Its visa-free list carries no date on its face - only the upload directory in its address - and two different lists are served from the site at once, a longer one from February 2024 and a shorter one from September 2024, with nothing saying which supersedes which. Neither includes the United States or any European Union state, so neither is a complete answer to who needs a visa, and the exemption those travellers use is in regulation 13(8)(b) for countries with Visa Abolition Agreements, which the Division does not publish. Its statement that full-time registered students of the University of the West Indies at St Augustine do not require student permits appears in no instrument. The link it labels Immigration Act of Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 18:01 on its work permit page does not serve the Act: it serves Legal Notice No. 493 of 2025, the fee regulations. Its Minister's Permit page publishes weekly collection lists and no statement of what is required to obtain one.
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- administersVisa Online Services
Ministry of Homeland Security of Trinidad and Tobago - Immigration Division
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The ministry that applies the Immigration Act. It took the immigration portfolio from the Ministry of National Security, whose address now redirects here. Its pages set out the work permit process, including the requirement that applications for one to nine permits go through the TTBizLink portal and that applications for ten or more use a single group form, the eVisa and eStudent Permit services with the fees charged for each, the list of countries whose citizens do not require entry visas, and the passport fees and documents.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It states practice and not law. Its visa-free list carries no date on its face - only the upload directory in its address - and two different lists are served from the site at once, a longer one from February 2024 and a shorter one from September 2024, with nothing saying which supersedes which. Neither includes the United States or any European Union state, so neither is a complete answer to who needs a visa, and the exemption those travellers use is in regulation 13(8)(b) for countries with Visa Abolition Agreements, which the Division does not publish. Its statement that full-time registered students of the University of the West Indies at St Augustine do not require student permits appears in no instrument. The link it labels Immigration Act of Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 18:01 on its work permit page does not serve the Act: it serves Legal Notice No. 493 of 2025, the fee regulations. Its Minister's Permit page publishes weekly collection lists and no statement of what is required to obtain one.
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- issuesFinance Act, 2025 (Act No. 14 of 2025)
Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago
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The Government's legislative database at laws.gov.tt. It carries three things nothing else does: a chronological list of Legal Notices and Government Notices from 1838 to 2026, each downloadable as the Government Printer's PDF of the Legal Supplement; an alphabetical and chronological register of Acts and Ordinances from 1838 to 2026 with commencement dates; and lists of Acts by status, including unproclaimed Acts. This is where the Proclamation bringing parts of the 2022 CARICOM Act into force, the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Immigration Regulations amendments, the work permit exemption Orders and every Finance Act from 2017 to 2026 were read. Documents are reached by a numeric download identifier rather than by name.
Standing: Issues the instrument
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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