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Official Gazette of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Ministry of Legal Affairs and Justice)

Issues the instrument

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.

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

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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.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

Weekly, normally Tuesday, with extraordinary issues in between. Roughly seventy issues a year.

Re-check triggers

a Bill on immigration, citizenship, employment of foreigners or land is reported · a change of government or a Cabinet reshuffle, which produces new assignment notices · any report of a citizenship by investment programme

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