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Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers, Guyana

Maintains the text in force

Guyana's law portal, publishing the Laws of Guyana chapter by chapter as PDFs. The Law Revision Act, Chapter 2:02, makes the Law Revision Commission - chaired by the Attorney General, with the Chief Parliamentary Counsel a member by office - responsible for preparing, publishing and maintaining the edition, lets it choose the form of publication, requires every page to carry the number of the Law Revision Order that authorised it, and provides by section 9 that those pages are in all courts and for all purposes the sole and proper Statute Book of Guyana for the law in force on the relevant revision date. The portal also carries draft bills and ministry news.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

mola.gov.gy

Cannot be cited for

It serves two editions at once and says so nowhere on its listing. On 2026-10-06, 52 of its 461 chapter entries carried L.R.O. 1/2022 - volumes 1 and 2 and part of volume 3 - and the remaining 409 carried L.R.O. 1/2012. The Attorney General told the National Assembly in June 2026 that 1/2012 shows the law as at 31 December 2012 and 1/2022 all laws enacted to 31 December 2022, so the L.R.O. number at the foot of each page is the only way to tell which edition you are reading. Everything that matters for migration - the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Aliens Act, all five CARICOM chapters, the Income Tax Act, the Customs Act, the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act - is still in the 2012 half. It must never be cited for what the law is now: the Income Tax Act it publishes prints a flat 33 1/3 per cent and has no section 36A, while the Revenue Authority charges 25 and 35 per cent under a section 36A. It publishes no amending Acts and no statutory instruments at all, so there is nothing on the site to check a Chapter against. Several chapters omit their own subsidiary legislation or schedules and say so in a note. Filenames carry a volume label and a unix timestamp, so a chapter's URL cannot be guessed and changes when the file is replaced.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

A revised edition appears roughly once a decade; the 2012 edition was replaced by the 2022 edition, which began going up on the portal volume by volume in 2026. Individual chapter files are re-uploaded without notice.

Re-check triggers

another volume of the 2022 revised edition appears on the portal · a new revised edition or law revision exercise is announced · an amendment to the Immigration Act, the Guyana Citizenship Act, the Income Tax Act or either CARICOM free-movement Act · an order adding a state to Schedule I of the Free Entry of Skilled Nationals Act or to Part B of Schedule I of the Immigration Act · an order amending the Schedule to the Movement of Factors Act

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