New Zealand Legislation: Acts

20 Limits on use of eligible individuals' criminal records

• (1) A person, body, or agency (including, without limitation, a government department or law enforcement agency) to whom the criminal record of an eligible individual, or information about the criminal record of an eligible individual, has been disclosed under section 19 must not use that criminal record or information about the criminal record for any purpose other than the purpose in relation to which it was disclosed to the person, body, or agency.

  (2) Any 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 (other than those that have been disclosed to it under section 19) must not use those records or any information about those records for any purpose other than for a purpose for which those records or that information may also be disclosed under section 19.