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Data Protection Act 2023

Data Protection Act 2023 (Act No. 18 of 2023), not yet commenced

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Commencement not set.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Not yet in force: Guyana's Data Protection Act 2023 has been enacted and gazetted but no commencement order has been issued, so it does not yet impose any operative duty on any person. Monitor for a commencement order bringing it into force.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Governance

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

The National Assembly gazetted the Data Protection Act 2023 as Act No. 18 of 2023 on 16 August 2023, following passage on 9 August 2023. As of the date below, no commencement order under the Act has been issued, no Data Protection Commissioner has been sworn in, and no Data Protection Office has been established under it, so the Act imposes no operative duty on any person while it remains uncommenced.

Guyana's Digital Identity Card Act 2023 came into operation before the Data Protection Act was commenced. The Digital Identity Card Act's Commissioner and safeguard duties are created by the Data Protection Act, so commentators have flagged them as unenforceable while the Data Protection Act itself remains uncommenced.

The Act's lawful-basis, data-subject-rights, breach-notification, cross-border-transfer, and enforcement provisions are not described here, because the Act does not yet bind anyone and this entry holds it as a single family until it is commenced.

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Read the law

Text of Act No. 18 of 2023, Parliament of Guyana

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