According to Art. 18 of the Credit Reporting Act 2010, credit reporting agencies may only store and retain the data collected in another country, provided they have the Bank of Guyana's approval.
Moreover, pursuant to Section 2 of the Credit Reporting (Cross Border Transfer and Storage of Credit Information) Regulations, a credit bureau may not transfer or store any information collected under the Act outside Guyana without the prior approval of the Bank.

Guyana has not joined any agreement with binding commitments to open transfers of data across borders.

Guyana does not have a data protection law in place; however, there is a Data Protection Bill from 2023 that is pending approval.
There are certain regulations in the financial sector related to data protection, namely:
- The Financial Institutions Act of 1995;
- The Anti-Money Laundering;
- The Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act No. 13 of 2009;
- The Credit Reporting Act of 2010.

According to Art. 8 of the Security Industry Act, registered security holders shall preserve accounting records for six years.

Pursuant to Art. 9A(2) of the Telecommunication (Amendment) Act 2008, a licensee authorised to provide mobile cellular services must, at its own cost, implement a process to record and store, for a period of five years, SIM-related information, including:
(i) the MSISDN number (or an equivalent identifier) of the SIM card to be activated or reactivated;
(ii) the IMEI number of the mobile handset to be used;
(iii) the full name, age, national identity number (if any) or passport number (if any), and residential, business, and postal addresses of the person requesting activation or reactivation (subject to any alternative requirements determined by the Minister or prescribed by regulation); and
(iv) details of calling and receiving parties, as well as the time and duration of calls.
Although the original Telecommunication Act of 1990 was repealed in 2016, the new telecom framework explicitly states that the Telecommunication (Amendment) Act 2008 remains in force.

Pursuant to Art. 7 of the Regulations, every applicant and every person who is, or subsequently becomes, a patentee must provide the Registrar with an address for service in Guyana. For all purposes connected with the relevant proceedings or patent, that address may be treated as the applicant’s, opponent’s, or patentee’s effective address.

Guyana is not a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Guyana has a clear regime of copyright exceptions that follows the fair dealing model, which enables the lawful use of copyrighted work by others without obtaining permission. Arts. 6-10 of the Copyright Act (amended by the Copyright (British Guiana) Order, 1966) establishes the exceptions, which include purposes of research, private study, criticism or review, among others.

Guyana maintains a legal framework governing intellectual property rights, including patents. However, reported enforcement capacity remains limited, which weakens practical safeguards and facilitates the relatively uninhibited distribution and sale of unlawfully obtained content. It is further reported that, even where rights are formally registered, effective enforcement mechanisms to protect intellectual property rights are lacking in practice.

Guyana has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Guyana has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Guyana lacks a comprehensive framework for the effective protection of trade secrets, but the Competition and Fair Trading Act of 2006 and the Access to Information Act of 2011 provide limited measures addressing some issues related to trade secrets.

Guyana imposes an obligation to share passive telecommunications infrastructure for the provision of services to end users. In practice, passive infrastructure sharing is also implemented in both the mobile and fixed sectors through commercial agreements.
Under section 42 of the Telecommunications Act 2016, where an operator requests access, for the purposes of installing, operating, or maintaining its network, to any road, conduit, pole, cable, works, or other facility of a public utility, or where a public utility requests access to an operator’s facilities, the request is governed by section 42 and the applicable regulations.
These obligations are further elaborated in Art. 8 of the Telecommunications (Interconnection and Access) Regulations 2020, which requires every operator, service provider, and public utility to: (i) provide timely access, upon written request, to any facility it owns or controls on an unbundled and non-discriminatory basis, including physical access and the ability to install, operate, maintain, and repair equipment; and (ii) negotiate access agreements in good faith and in accordance with the Regulations. Art. 8.2 further specifies that operators and service providers must provide access to roads, ducts, conduits, poles, towers, cables, and other elements of their facilities (or public utility facilities, as applicable) for joint use and allocation, consistent with section 42 of the Act.

According to Art. 38.7 of the Telecommunications Act, the Public Utilities Commission may, where it deems appropriate, require that an operator or a service provider put into effect accounting separation between different portions of its telecommunications networks, facilities, and telecommunications services. However, it is reported that functional separation of SMP/dominant network operator(s) is not required by law.

Pursuant to Art. 9(2) of the Patents Regulations, the Registrar will not accept an application for a patent relating to an invention communicated from abroad, or an application filed by a person who is not resident in Guyana at the time of filing, unless the application is submitted through a licensed patent agent. Under Art. 101 of the Patents and Designs Act, the Registrar may grant renewable annual licences to fit and proper Commonwealth citizens who are patent agents.