The Attorney General’s Chambers has received the first shipment of copies of the completed Consoli-dated Index of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation updated to 1st January 2021.
In a statement issued yesterday, the Chambers said that the updated index was the product of a collaboration with the IMPACT Justice Project, University of West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados.
According to the statement, the shipment arrived on Tuesday and copies will be distributed to key stakeholders in the coming days.
The Consolidated Index 2021 was compiled, printed, and published by the Faculty of the Law Library of UWI, Cave Hill.
The last Consolidated Index, the release noted, was produced more than 10 years ago, and only contained Guyana’s statutes and subsidiary legislation passed up to January 2011.
According the release, Attorney General Anil Nandlal SC met with Professor Velma Newton, Regional Project Director of IMPACT Justice, to thank her and team for their work and also used the opportunity to underscore the instrumental role the indices will play “in allowing stakeholders to apprise themselves of each and every one of Guyana’s existing statues and subsidiary legislation.”
Nandlall added that government “is aware that Guyana’s new developmental trajectory has triggered a need for heightened awareness of, and access to relevant laws across all sectors,” and he expressed confidence that the Consolidated Index 2021 will go a far way in allowing stakeholders to inform themselves and, indeed, the public of these laws.
Copies will be sent to the acting Chancellor and Chief Justice, the president of the Guyana Bar Association, as well as the office of the Berbice Bar Association. Copies will also be sent to the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the acting Commissioner of Police, Chairman of the Law Reform Commission and Head of the University of Guyana’s Department of Law.
