Attorney General Directive 1/98 (FOI)

Request

Please provide a copy of Attorney General Directive 1/98 on the subject of personal amounts of Class B and C controlled drugs which might be dealt with by Parish Hall Enquiry.

Response

The Government of Jersey does not hold a copy of the Attorney General Directive 1/98 therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. While this may be held by the Law Officers Department, that Department is not a Scheduled Public Authority under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 and therefore does not have a duty to disclose any information in response to a request under the law.

There is a supplemental direction and guidance from the Attorney General on the same topic issued in April 2022. This is available from the Parish Hall Enquiries section of this web page:

Attorney General's guidelines and directives (gov.je)

The direct link to the document is:

Personal amounts of certain controlled drugs.pdf (gov.je)

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.