Criminal Records Agency

English Legal System: Criminal Records Agency

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Criminal Records Agency : A state body that provides individuals with information about their criminal records in the form of a *criminal conviction certificate. The agency was set up under the Police Act 1997 and comes into operation in 1997. The Act also provides for full and enhanced checks to be undertaken on individuals with criminal records and for the information obtained to be passed, with their consent, to bodies registered for that purpose.