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Digital Legislative Library, Trinidad and Tobago

Issues the instrument

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.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web

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.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

The legal notice collection is current to within weeks; 822 notices were listed for 2026 when read. The Acts register runs to the current year. The consolidated Acts are static at 2016.

Re-check triggers

a Proclamation naming the Law Revision (Amendment) Act, 2026 or any further part of the Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals) (Amendment) Act, 2022 · a further Immigration (Amendment) Regulations or Immigration (Exemption From Work Permit) Order · the Immigration (Exemption From Work Permit) (Immigrants) Order expiring on 31 December 2026 without replacement · a Finance Act amending the Income Tax Act section 18, the Immigration Act or the Customs Act · any Act or Notice naming free movement, contingent rights or the Caribbean Community

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