Whether you indicate you have had convictions on an application form depends on whether you are eligible to be “clean slated” under the Criminal Records (Clean Slate ) Act 2004. This Act allows you to conceal your convictions if you meet all of the following conditions:

• No convictions within the last seven years
• Never been sentenced to a custodial sentence e.g. imprisonment
• Corrective Training, borstal
• Never been ordered by a Court following a criminal case to be detained in a hospital due to your mental condition, instead of being sentenced
• Not been convicted of a “specified offence” (e.g. sexual offending against children and young people or the mentally impaired)
• Paid in full any fine, reparation, or costs ordered by the Court in a criminal case
• Never been indefinitely disqualified from driving.

For more information visit the Ministry of Justice website’s section about criminal records.