Law revision exercise should be completed by June 2025 – Nandlall

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC on Saturday said that the revision and consolidation of the Laws of Guyana should now be completed by June 2025.

“That is ongoing, it was supposed to have been completed. Unfortunately, it was a lot of work.

“The deadline I have from the law revision centre is June of next year. So by July, hopefully, we should be launching it,” Nandlall said during his yearend press conference.

This exercise will cover the years 2012 to 2022. It was anticipated that the revision exercise would be completed in 2023.

The exercise is a collaborative effort between the Law Revision Commission and the Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) Project.

It is being executed by the Regional Revision Centre Inc., an Anguillan company. Nandlall said it is the only company in the region able to do this work.

The last consolidation and revision exercise was carried out pre-2012; that exercise produced the 2012 Revised Edition of the Laws of Guyana.

It was previously noted that to facilitate the required work, the Attorney General’s Chambers through the IMPACT Justice Project, will supply the Regional Law Revision Centre with:

1. electronic copies of the last (2012) Revised Edition of the Laws of Guyana;
2. the printed edition of the last (2012) Revised Edition of the Laws of Guyana;
3. copy of the Consolidated Index of the Laws of Guyana for the revision periods 2009, 2010 and 2021; and
4. The Gazette publications of the Laws of Guyana for the revision period 31 December 2010 to 31st December 2021.