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A

BILL

TO

Facilitate access by members of the public to the registers of the Criminal

Records Office.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Duties in relation to criminal records

(1) A criminal records office must keep, in electronic form, copies of all

Magistrates’ Courts Registers, and any other registers produced by a court

listing convictions, and must make them accessible to the public.

(2) 5Information held by a criminal records office under subsection (1) shall not be

“personal information” for the purpose of the Freedom of Information Act

2000.

(3) In order to comply with the requirements of subsection (1) a criminal records

office must ensure that—

(a) 10the registers it holds are no more than one month out of date at any

time, and

(b) no registers are held for the purposes of this Act which relate to the

period before the day on which this Act is passed.

(4) In this Act—

2 20Financial provisions

There is to be paid out of money provided by Parliament any expenditure incurred in

consequence of this Act by a Minister of the Crown, government department or other

public authority.

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3 Short title, commencement and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Records (Public Access) Act 2011.

(2) This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

(3) This Act extends to England and Wales only.

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