Part 2Clean slate scheme
Effect of clean slate scheme on controlling public offices that hold or have access to criminal records
15Responsibility of chief executives
Subsection (2) applies to the Secretary for Justice and every other chief executive of a controlling public office that holds, or has access to, criminal records.
A chief executive to whom this subsection applies must take all reasonable steps (including, without limitation, the development of policies and procedures) to ensure the office for which he or she is chief executive, and any employee or contractor of that office—
- conceals the criminal records of eligible individuals when requests are made for their disclosure other than by the eligible individuals to whom the criminal records relate; and
- does not use the criminal records of eligible individuals other than for a purpose authorised under this Act.
Subsection (2)(a) is subject to the exceptions in section 19.
Notes
- Section 15(1): amended, on , by section 24(2) of the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Act 2018 (2018 No 7).
- Section 15(2): amended, on , by section 24(2) of the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Act 2018 (2018 No 7).