{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guyana-independence-act-1966/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guyana-independence-act-1966/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/14",
  "legislation_title": "Guyana Independence Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guyana-independence-act-1966",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For the purpose of the making, on or after the appointed day, of Orders in Council under section 4 of the West Indies Act 1962, Guyana shall be treated as not being a colony with the meaning of that Act.\n(4) On and after the appointed day the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in that Schedule.\n(5) Subsection (4) of this section, and Schedule 2 to this Act, shall not extend to Guyana as part of its law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(1) repealed by Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30, SIF 115:1), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(2) repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1962 c. 19(26:46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/14/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:38.897773+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}