PART 1

Security

Criminal records

Requests for information from member States
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1
The designated UK authority may, for any of the law enforcement purposes, make a request to the central authority of a member State for information relating to any overseas convictions of an individual recorded in a criminal records database of the member State.
2
If an individual who is a national of a member State makes a request to the designated UK authority for information relating to the individual's overseas convictions, the designated UK authority must make a request to the central authority of that member State for information relating to any overseas convictions of the individual recorded in a criminal records database of the member State.
3
If the individual is a national of more than one member State, the designated UK authority must make a request to the central authority of each of those member States for the information.
4
Any information provided to the designated UK authority in response to a request made under this section may be used only—
a
for the purpose or purposes for which it was requested, and
b
in accordance with any restrictions specified by the central authority that provided it.
5
But subsection (4) does not prohibit the use of such information for the purpose of preventing an immediate and serious threat to public security.
6
In this section “overseas conviction” means a conviction under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.
S. 4 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1662, reg. 2(d)