Guyana adopts two national standards for liquefied petroleum gas

Guyana has placed two national standards for liquefied petroleum gas on a legal footing through Order No. 189 of 2026, formally titled the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GYS 264 and GYS 523 LPG Standards) Order 2026. The instrument was published in the Legal Supplement – B of Gazette No. 408/2026 of Saturday, 24 October 2026, beginning at page 1065. It was issued under the authority of the Government of Guyana and printed, like every Saturday issue, by Guyana National Printers Limited of 1 Public Road, La Penitence, Greater Georgetown.

The gazette is the channel through which subsidiary legislation in Guyana is brought to public notice, and Order 189 is listed under the heading “Subsidiary Legislation” in the contents of the day’s legal supplement. It stands alongside only one other subsidiary instrument in the same issue: Order No. 190 of 2026, the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes (Public Road Reserve – Plantation Versailles to Parika Highway) Order 2026, which begins at page 1075. The supplement carries its own numbering, the pages of Order 189 being headed “No. 189 of 2026”, and no Acts or Bills were published that Saturday.

The order is the first instrument in recent weeks to deal with the national standards catalogue rather than with land, aviation or court matters. In the preceding month the same supplement carried Requirement No. 8 of 2026 on meteorological service for air navigation, Requirements No. 9, No. 10 and No. 11 of 2026 on aeronautical information services, communication, navigation and surveillance and certified aerodromes, all dated 12 October 2026; Order No. 182 of 2026 on a road extension from Heroes Highway to the Ogle/Timehri Highway on 10 October; Order No. 188 of 2026, commencing the Sea and River Defence Act 2024, together with a Deepavali public holiday notification on 17 October; and Order No. 180 of 2026, commencing section 43 of the Land Registry Act, on 19 September.

Two standards in a single instrument

The order names two specifications of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards, both of them LPG standards, and adopts them together in one instrument:

• GYS 264, the first of the two standards cited in the order’s title.
• GYS 523, the second standard cited, paired with it in the same title.
• Both are brought forward by a single Order of 2026 rather than by separate instruments.

The GYS prefix is the designation carried by the Bureau’s published standards, and the contents entry of Gazette No. 408/2026 records the order by name, number and page only. The operative text — including any commencement provision, application clause or duty on suppliers — sits in the supplement from page 1065 onward, so anyone relying on the instrument must read the order itself rather than the contents summary.

What else Saturday’s gazette carried

The legal supplement was the smallest part of a 24 October issue dominated by commercial and court notices:

• Bank of Guyana notices numbered (No. 3232) and (No. 3233), at pages 3394 and 3398.
• Supreme Court petitions for declarations of title by prescription, published in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, with a one-month window for any person intending to oppose.
• A first debenture by National Industries Limited, registered office at Lot 15A Water Street, Georgetown, to be issued under section 233(1) of the Companies Act, Chapter 89:01 in favour of Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited after seven days from publication.
• Trade mark registrations in the First Supplement, running to number (No. 3276) and signed by Reza Manraj, Registrar of Commerce.

Why the order matters

Liquefied petroleum gas reaches Guyanese homes and businesses in cylinders, and the point where imported product, filling plants, distributors and household users meet is precisely where a published national specification does its work. By adopting GYS 264 and GYS 523 as subsidiary legislation, the order gives the two Bureau standards a legal reference that can be cited in contracts, import documentation, inspection and disputes, instead of leaving them as voluntary technical documents.

For readers in the trade, the practical effect is a change of legal status rather than of wording: the standards themselves are the Bureau’s, and the order is the Government’s. Importers, fillers and distributors of LPG should read the order as printed at page 1065 of Gazette No. 408/2026, since the gazette’s contents entry fixes the name and number of the instrument but not its terms.

Source: The Official Gazette of Guyana, No. 408/2026, 24 October 2026, Legal Supplement – B, p. 1065 (official reference: Order No. 189 of 2026).