Attorney and analyst Christopher Ram says the revised Laws of Guyana unveiled in March this year to much fanfare are missing key elements and are incorrect in other areas.
In his latest blog on chrisram.net, Ram suggested two options, completing the key omissions: a chronological list of the Acts, an index and a table of contents or an “immediate and competent” review of the eighteen volumes of the Laws of Guyana to ensure that they are complete and correct.
The laws had been updated up to December 31, 2010 under an Inter-Ameri-can Development Bank-funded project.
Ram said that the Laws of Guyana are published under the authority of the Law Revision Act, section 8 of which provides for two sets of laws which may be omitted from the Laws of Guyana. The first set relates to a) any Appropriation or Supplementary Appropriation Act; b) any applied law; and c) any subsidiary
