I'm applying for a job. How serious does a conviction have to be before I declare it on my application form?
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 .