endomorphosis/ipfs_jamaica_laws

Laws of Jamaica (MOJ / laws.moj.gov.jm / Parliament)

Research snapshot of official national legislation from Laws of Jamaica / Ministry of Justice / Parliament (laws.moj.gov.jm, moj.gov.jm, japarliament.gov.jm).

Not legal advice. The official gazette / authentic source prevails over this corpus.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Snapshot date	2026-09-18
Coverage	catalog-backed incomplete
Source	Laws of Jamaica / Ministry of Justice / Parliament (laws.moj.gov.jm, moj.gov.jm, japarliament.gov.jm)
Collector	scrapers/collect_jm.py
Laws / instruments	4,382
Articles	48,511
Language	en
Jurisdiction	Jamaica
License	jm-moj

Contents

• data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument.
• data/articles.parquet — article/section rows for the same snapshot.
• scrapers/collect_jm.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.
• scrapers/v13_gazette/ — v13 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner (the rest of the queue, 2017 onward, + L.N. 136C/2016 under CoS D17; same rules as v12), rules, personal-data screen, disk (12,950 MiB) + memory gate, 1-second session watchdog, post-pass, corrigenda linker, checks, verdicts, Gazette pass summary v8-v13, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v12_gazette/ — v12 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner (2009 leftovers first, CoS D12; D13 moneylending pattern + D16 fuzzy D2 keywords; multi-L.N. neighbour-title check), rules, personal-data screen, disk + memory gate, 1-second session watchdog, post-pass, corrigenda linker, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v11_gazette/ — v11 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner (D6 names-in-passing deferral, D8 release), rules, personal-data screen, disk + memory gate, 1-second session watchdog, post-pass, corrigenda linker, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v10_gazette/ — v10 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner (D4 personal-data screen, D5 release), rules, personal-data screen, memory gate, post-pass, corrigenda linker, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v9_gazette/ — v9 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner (D3 single_entity tag, year-safe digit join, title-garble fixer), rules, post-pass, corrigenda linker, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v8_gazette/ — v8 Jamaica Gazette Legal Notice runner, title filter rules (CoS D2 deferrals), deferred list, corrigenda linker, retitle pass, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification and docs scripts.
• scrapers/v7_acts/ — v7 Acts-of-Parliament runner, shelf re-list, retitle pass, U+FFFD fix, checks, verdicts, staging (streamed parquet), peak-RSS sampler, verification, docs and fix-plan scripts, and the Gazette L.N. dry-run filter (_jm_gazette_ln_plan.py).
• scrapers/v6_subsid/ — v6 subsidiary-compilation runner, jm_subsid_v1 splitter, driver, review pass, checks, name check, verdicts, staging, verification, docs and fix-plan scripts.
• scrapers/v5_batch2/ — v5 batch runner, driver, checks, verdicts, staging, verification, docs and fix-plan scripts.
• scrapers/v4_batch1/ — v4 catalog / batch runner (per-page text-layer or OCR choice), the jm_section_v2 splitter, checks, verdicts, staging, verification and docs scripts, and the disk-watchdog step wrapper.

License / reuse

Laws of Jamaica — Ministry of Justice / Parliament. Authentic official text prevails. Not legal advice..

This dataset is not legal advice. The official source prevails.

Source

• https://laws.moj.gov.jm/

Known gaps

Official PDFs from laws.moj.gov.jm revised statutes/subsidiary/gazettes + moj.gov.jm / japarliament.gov.jm. Live + Wayback CDX of official URLs. Cap/Section article_re densify. Not vLex.

Version

• v14 (jm_fix_v14, 2026-10-01): FIX-ONLY pack on Hub tip cfb1c46e (v13): fix plan T1-T18 applied (CoS D24) + D23; no law added or dropped (4,382 laws), articles 48,726 -> 48,511; every tip article id kept or mapped (metadata.old_id / old_ids); every changed row has metadata.history. T1 control characters -> newline (ctrl_audit 0); T2 -dupN; T3 re-split; T4/T5/T7/T13/T15/T17/T18 metadata marks; T8/T10/T16 titles from the instrument's own heading (title_history); T9 re-extraction of tip statutes (100 replaced, 80 kept); T6/T12/T12b/T14 OCR under the dictionary rule.
• hub_tip_base: cfb1c46e310cecf1c944f02f47c685e1604aa573 (v13: 4,382 laws / 48,726 articles)
• v13 (jm_catalog_v13_gazette, 2026-10-01), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices: the rest of the queue (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 shelves) + L.N. 136C/2016 (CoS D17) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip de6a3261 (v12): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +428 Legal Notices (by L.N. year: 2016 1, 2017 118, 2018 106, 2019 131, 2020 25, 2021 39, 2022 3, 2023 3, 2024 2); 78 single-company Orders tagged subject_scope=single_entity (CoS D3); 3 written under CoS D17 (public officers in an official capacity); 82 instruments naming a private individual deferred (CoS D4); 8 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6; 63 in total); 81 titles corrected from the instrument's own text (title_history); 428 live, 0 Wayback; 1,947 pages in 420 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 3,954 -> 4,382 laws, 46,561 -> 48,726 articles. Gazette queue: exhausted - every instrument-classified and undetermined Gazette catalog entry has been attempted.
• hub_tip_base: de6a3261845dc3fea7037dc79628801f728215d4 (v12: 3,954 laws / 46,561 articles)
• After v13: Gazette L.N. not yet fetched: 0 instrument-classified + 0 undetermined entries; 3,046 Orders in the six D2 categories deferred (v12 rule); 63 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6); fix plan T1-T18 approved (T17: personal_data=true on 10 tip rows; T18: deferred_category on 20 tip rows), not applied.
• v12 (jm_catalog_v12_gazette, 2026-09-30), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices: the 2009-shelf leftovers first, then the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 shelves (general instruments; CoS D12) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip 2ab9c0fa (v11): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +493 Legal Notices (by L.N. year: 2009 74, 2013 41, 2014 110, 2015 144, 2016 110, 2017 14); 78 single-company Orders tagged subject_scope=single_entity (CoS D3); 7 instruments naming a private individual deferred (CoS D4); 13 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6; 55 in total); D2 filter with the CoS D13 moneylending pattern and CoS D16 fuzzy keywords (46 queue entries moved to deferred); 133 titles corrected from the instrument's own text (title_history; 7 by the multi-L.N. neighbour-title check); 493 live, 0 Wayback; 2,529 pages in 493 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 3,461 -> 3,954 laws, 44,535 -> 46,561 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 2ab9c0fad309275b863c618bee9102499eaf8141 (v11: 3,461 laws / 44,535 articles)
• After v12: Gazette L.N. not yet fetched: 528 instrument-classified + 41 undetermined entries (incl. 0 of the 2009 shelf); 3,046 Orders in the six D2 categories deferred (v12 rule); 55 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6); fix plan T15-T17 (T17: personal_data=true on 10 tip rows) approved, not applied; T18 (20 tip rows matching the v12 D2 rule) proposal only.
• v11 (jm_catalog_v11_gazette, 2026-09-30), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices of the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 shelves (general instruments; from the 2010 shelf) + L.N. 125A/2006 (CoS D8) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip 47b7f88e (v10): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +502 Legal Notices (by L.N. year: 2006 1, 2010 130, 2011 166, 2012 114, 2013 91); 77 single-company Orders tagged subject_scope=single_entity (CoS D3); 3 instruments naming a private individual deferred (CoS D4); 17 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6; 42 in total); 140 titles corrected from the instrument's own text (title_history; 0 by the automatic garble fixer); 502 live, 0 Wayback; 2,171 pages in 502 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 2,959 -> 3,461 laws, 42,839 -> 44,535 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 47b7f88efa03e225a7769ead517ba47949cd1ab6 (v10: 2,959 laws / 42,839 articles)
• After v11: Gazette L.N. not yet fetched: 1,109 instrument-classified + 193 undetermined entries (incl. 86 of the 2009 shelf); 2,972 Orders in the six D2 categories deferred; 42 names-in-passing instruments deferred (CoS D6); fix plan T15 (metadata only), T16, T17 (personal_data=true on 10 tip rows, CoS D7) approved, not applied.
• v10 (jm_catalog_v10_gazette, 2026-09-30), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices of the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 shelves (general instruments; rest of 2005 onward) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip 2fac08c5 (v9): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +503 Legal Notices (by L.N. year: 2005 18, 2006 125, 2007 137, 2008 135, 2009 86, 2010 2); 101 single-company Orders tagged subject_scope=single_entity (CoS D3); L.N. 26(1)A/2005 written as a corrected republication (CoS D5); 38 instruments naming private persons deferred (CoS D4: 13 as the subject, 25 in passing); 46 titles corrected from the instrument's own text (title_history; 0 by the automatic garble fixer); 503 live, 0 Wayback; 1,771 pages in 503 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 2,456 -> 2,959 laws, 40,899 -> 42,839 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 2fac08c5104674fe6d01931310a45958745ee170 (v9: 2,456 laws / 40,899 articles)
• After v10: Gazette L.N. not yet fetched: 1,691 instrument-classified + 203 undetermined entries; 2,972 Orders in the six D2 categories deferred; fix plan T15 (metadata only), T16, T17 (personal_data=true on 9 tip rows) approved, not applied.
• v9 (jm_catalog_v9_gazette, 2026-09-30), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices of the 2003, 2004, 2005 shelves (general instruments) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip cef01e12 (v8): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +517 Legal Notices (by L.N. year: 2003 181, 2004 184, 2005 152); 69 single-company Orders tagged subject_scope=single_entity (CoS D3); 4 garbled titles fixed from the instrument's heading (title_history); 517 live, 0 Wayback; 1,699 pages in 517 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 1,939 -> 2,456 laws, 38,806 -> 40,899 articles.
• hub_tip_base: cef01e12d980664d08ae9114c747568fb3a37db5 (v8: 1,939 laws / 38,806 articles)
• After v9: Gazette L.N. not yet fetched: 2,271 instrument-classified + 208 undetermined entries; 2,972 Orders in the six D2 categories deferred; 6 untitled Approved Farmer Orders deferred pending T17; fix plan T15/T16 (v8 retro-tag / title fixes) approved, not applied.
• v8 (jm_catalog_v8_gazette, 2026-09-30), Jamaica Gazette Legal Notices 2000-2002 (general instruments: regulations, rules, orders, schemes, directions) from laws.moj.gov.jm on Hub tip 5db934eb (v7), plus the Justices of the Peace Act No. 10 of 2018 as enacted (CoS D1): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +489 Legal Notices, one row per L.N. (id jm-gazette-, title from the instrument's own citation clause or the catalog; metadata ln_number, ln_year, gazette_date, instrument_type, enabling_act_row_id, corrigenda, as_made); single-entity Orders deferred (CoS D2); 490 live, 0 Wayback; 1,649 pages in 490 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 1,449 -> 1,939 laws, 37,046 -> 38,806 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 5db934eb4085b4f86a88eea33c95943a1579a769 (v7: 1,449 laws / 37,046 articles)
• After v8: Gazette L.N. 2003-2024 not yet fetched (2,835 instrument-classified + 221 undetermined entries); 2,972 single-entity Orders deferred; official-site gaps: thin Gazette listing after 2019, empty 2003/2004 Acts shelves.
• v7 (jm_catalog_v7_acts, 2026-09-30), the laws.moj.gov.jm Acts of Parliament 2000-2023 as enacted on Hub tip 58391400 (v6): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +500 Acts, one row per enacted Act (id jm-act-, title from the Act's own heading / running header / short-title clause with its year; metadata act_number, act_year, act_kind, as_enacted, revised_row_id, amends_law_id), plus the Evidence (Special Measures) Act subsidiary compilation (official file served under the Endangered Species slot); 501 live, 0 Wayback; 7,161 pages in 425 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 948 -> 1,449 laws, 31,651 -> 37,046 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 583914002710c4328fe1c56ee394b50102dfdbef (v6: 948 laws / 31,651 articles)
• After v7: 500 of the 528 Acts-shelf entries are in the pack (25 are second listings of the same PDF, 2 official files are incomplete, 1 is held for a policy decision); the shelves for 2003 and 2004 are empty; Gazette L.N. instruments are not yet collected.
• v6 (jm_catalog_v6_subsid, 2026-09-30), the laws.moj.gov.jm revised subsidiary-legislation compilations on Hub tip 89b73837 (v5): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +183 compilations, one row per compilation PDF (id jm-subsid-, title from the compilation's parent-Act heading + ' (Subsidiary Legislation)', metadata.parent_act links the Act's row), articles split per instrument (jm_subsid_v1); 183 live, 0 Wayback; 1,646 pages in 100 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule. 765 -> 948 laws, 23,188 -> 31,651 articles.
• hub_tip_base: 89b738374f78f41905d8b1c40d44e5c6a36d621b (v5: 765 laws / 23,188 articles)
• After v6: 183 of the 267 subsidiary compilations are in the pack; 72 are held as the same instrument set as older MOJ copies already on the tip, 12 were not added (contents-only PDFs, site defects, a draft Bill); the 528 Acts of Parliament are catalogued, not yet included.
• v5 (jm_catalog_v5_batch2, 2026-09-30), catalog batch on Hub tip b5928ac7 (v4): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +220 laws (219 live from laws.moj.gov.jm, 1 from the Wayback capture of an official moj.gov.jm URL; 2278 pages in 89 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule). 545 -> 765 laws, 17,645 -> 23,188 articles.
• hub_tip_base: b5928ac7edeb24dd0fdf63be61ac1a7cb5559a99 (v4: 545 laws / 17,645 articles)
• After v5: 643 of 669 revised statutes are in the pack; 18 held or not added in v4 (14 same-instrument holds of older MOJ copies on the tip + 4 v4 exclusions) and 8 not added in v5 (duplicate slugs, site defects, footer-only PDFs, one as-enacted copy); the 267 subsidiary compilations and 528 Acts of Parliament are catalogued, not yet included.
• v4 (jm_catalog_v4_batch1, 2026-09-26), catalog batch on Hub tip aecc0784 (v3): no tip row, tip article id or tip scraper changed. +243 Revised Laws of Jamaica statutes from laws.moj.gov.jm (243 live, 0 Wayback; 732 pages in 77 rows OCR'd under the dictionary rule). 302 -> 545 laws, 12,658 -> 17,645 articles.
• hub_tip_base: aecc0784e9538d79976a4c7eb72fb9d6b7cfb3bd (v3: 302 laws / 12,658 articles)
• After v4: 423 of 669 revised statutes are in the pack; the rest, the 267 revised subsidiary-legislation compilations and the 528 Acts of Parliament are catalogued (MANIFEST) and not yet included.