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+# Jersey follow-up: the 2024 Centenier fine and the criminal-record wording
+
+26 October 2026. Follow-up to [the Jersey gap pass](history-jersey-gap-2026-10-26.md). That pass
+verified `jersey-centenier-drug-fines-2024` against the enacted law and marked it checked, but its
+description still said the fine was imposed "without a criminal conviction." Neither the enacted
+law nor the current consolidation uses that phrase or addresses the criminal record. This note
+reads an official 2025 report that does, and corrects the wording. No score changed.
+
+## The law
+
+The Crime (Public Order) (Jersey) Law 2024 (L.9/2024) was adopted on 7 February 2024, sanctioned
+on 2 October 2024, registered on 11 October 2024 and came into force on 18 October 2024. Article
+15 makes it commence seven days after registration. Article 13(3) inserts Article 28A after
+Article 28 of the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978:
+
+> (1) If a person is charged with an offence under Article 8(1) (restrictions on possession of
+> controlled drugs) in relation to the possession of a Class B drug or a Class C drug and accepts
+> the decision of a Centenier having jurisdiction in the matter, that Centenier may impose a fine
+> of level 1 on the standard scale.
+>
+> (2) A Centenier who has imposed a fine under this Article – (a) must give a receipt for it; and
+> (b) must, as soon as reasonably practicable, inform the Chief Officer of the States of Jersey
+> Police Force of the details of the fine.
+>
+> (3) A fine imposed under this Article is to be paid – (a) as to one half, to the Consolidated
+> Fund continued under Article 3(1) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019; and (b) as to the
+> other half, to the parish in which the Centenier who imposed it had jurisdiction.
+
+The section creates a summary fine for possession of a Class B or Class C drug. It does not use
+the word "conviction" and does not say what appears on a criminal record. The current
+consolidation carries Article 28A with endnote 40, which identifies L.9/2024 as the inserting
+instrument.
+
+## The official description
+
+[P.116/2025](https://web.archive.org/web/2026id_/https://www.statesassembly.je/getmedia/1259b610-7ac2-4a15-a98a-877a4d13a53d/P-116-2025.pdf?ext=.pdf),
+*Future approach to personal cannabis use in Jersey*, was lodged au Greffe on 19 December 2025 by
+the Minister for Health and Social Services. Paragraph 29 states that Centeniers may impose a
+fine (£200) where a person is charged with possession of cannabis (or importation of personal
+amounts) and accepts the Centenier's decision. Paragraphs 31–32 place the process at Parish Hall
+enquiries under the Attorney General's guidance. Paragraphs 34–36 describe the record:
+
+> 34. Where a person commits a third offence of possession of a personal amount (or a second
+> offence within less than 12 months after their first offence, or where the Centier [sic]
+> determines a fine should be imposed), the Centenier may impose a fine (£200 for cannabis).
+>
+> 35. Where a fine is imposed, a record of that fine will be maintained by the Police, but it will
+> not appear on the person's criminal record.
+>
+> 36. Parish Hall written cautions and fines are not addressed by the Rehabilitation of Offenders
+> (Jersey) Law 2001; hence they stay on a person's police record in perpetuity.
+
+The report is not the 2024 law; it is a ministerial proposition describing how the scheme
+operates. It is nevertheless the official source for the record effect. The entry now says the
+fine "is recorded by police but does not appear on the person's criminal record", which is what
+paragraph 35 says. It no longer asserts a conviction-free process in the law's own words.
+
+## Changes
+
+- `jersey-centenier-drug-fines-2024`: description reworded; P.116/2025 added as source 3 and
+  cited for the record effect. The id, date, category, `before` vector and checked status are
+  unchanged.
+- `countries/je.yaml`: the summary, possession and consequences text now use "criminal record"
+  rather than "conviction"; P.116/2025 is added to the possession and consequences source lists.
+  The `updated` date is 26 October 2026. Scores are unchanged.
+
+The chain remains 1955-01-01 100 → 97, 1965 97 → 70, 1966-05-01 70 → 12, 1998 12 → 14,
+2019-01-01 14 → 16, 2024-10-18 16 → 19, with 0 flagged steps.
+
+## Limits
+
+The Attorney General's Directions and Guidance for Centeniers (linked from P.116/2025 footnote
+14) were not read for this note. P.116/2025 is a proposition, not a court judgment; it describes
+the record effect but does not decide the legal status of a Centenier's fine. The original
+P.97/2023 proposition and any explanatory report for the 2024 law were not recovered, so the
+legislative intention is taken from the enacted text and the later official report. The direct
+States Assembly PDF was Cloudflare-blocked; the copy read was the Wayback Machine capture of the
+same PDF. P.116/2025 describes the scheme as it stood in December 2025 and is not an enacted
+change to the 2024 law.
+
+## Validation
+
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain je`: six steps, 0 flagged.
+- `npm run history:test`: 39 passed.
+- `npm run answers:test`: 16 passed.
+- `npm run build`: 4,164 pages. The count includes unrelated uncommitted Iraq entries present in
+  the working tree, so it is not a Jersey-only count.
+- `git diff --check`: clean.