05/03/2010 - Asking about spent convictions

Changes to the exception relating to this Act.
Amends the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, SI 1975/1023. Confers the right to ask questions regarding spent convictions and spent cautions where a person seeks to work in controlled activity with children or vulnerable adults within the meaning of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. This right is limited to circumstances where the person seeking such work is barred from regulated activity relating to children or vulnerable adults, or is still included in lists kept under the Protection of Children Act 1999, s 1, or the Care Standards Act 2000, s 81, or if the person is still subject to a direction made under the Education Act 2002, s 142.
Makes similar provision in relation to the Isle of Man as already applies in relation to the Channel Islands. Confers the right to ask questions regarding spent convictions and spent cautions in relation to offices, employment or other work etc in the Channel Islands or in the Isle of Man where there is corresponding provision in those places for the rehabilitation of offenders and the right to ask excepted questions for prescribed purposes.
 

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