New Zealand Legislation: Acts

16 Effect of clean slate scheme on government departments, law enforcement agencies, employees, and contractors

• (1) A government department or law enforcement agency, or an employee or contractor of a government department or law enforcement agency, that holds or has access to criminal records and that is responding to a request for the disclosure of an eligible individual's criminal record or any information about an eligible individual's criminal record (other than from the eligible individual to whom the request relates) must not disclose the criminal record of the eligible individual.

  (2) A government department or law enforcement agency, or an employee or contractor of a government department or law enforcement agency, that holds or has access to the criminal records of eligible individuals may not use those criminal records other than for a purpose authorised under this Act.

  (3) Subsection (1) is subject to the exceptions in section 19.