Legislation and useful links

Legislation

• NZ Legislation website:
  • Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004
  • Privacy Act 2020
  • Official Information Act
  • Children's Act 2014
• Police website:
  • Cost Recovery

Other external sites

• Oranga Tamariki–Ministry for Children
  Safety checking and workforce restrictions are one of several initiatives under the Children's Act (CA) 2014 to enhance the safety and competency of professionals who work with children. The Act introduces new requirements for organisations funded by state services that employ people to work with children. Safety checking requirements are being phased in over several years. Police are making changes to our vetting system to enable us to provide organisations with CA compliant vetting services required as part of the safety checking initiative.

• Ministry of Justice Criminal Records Unit - Request authorisation to view someone's criminal record