Disclosure of spent convictions by NSW Police Force
8 Disclosure of spent convictions by NSW Police Force
It is not an offence for the officer in charge of the Criminal Records Section of the NSW Police Force to make information relating to a spent conviction available to the following—
a judicial officer of the Supreme Court for the purposes of an application under Part 2 of the Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Act 2012,
the Chairperson of the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority, or a person authorised in writing by the Chairperson,
a person employed in the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Department of Communities and Justice if—
the information is to be used only by the Bureau for research, reports relating to that research and the production of statistics, and
any publication of the Bureau does not name or otherwise identify the person who was the subject of the spent conviction,
a person employed in Corrective Services NSW, NSW Fair Trading or the Office of the Sheriff, Department of Communities and Justice (a prescribed agency) if—
the information is only made available together with information relating to all other convictions of the relevant person, and
at the time of making the information available the officer in charge is satisfied the prescribed agency has policies and procedures that will ensure the information will not be disclosed, or used or taken into account in any decision made or other thing done, by any person employed in the prescribed agency.
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