Criminal Records Agency in United Kingdom

Definition of Criminal Records Agency

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description 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.