These Regulations make detailed provisions in relation to applications for criminal record certificates and enhanced criminal record certificates under Part V of the Police Act 1997.

Regulation 2 defines terms used in the Regulations.

Regulation 3 requires an application for the issue of a criminal record certificate or an enhanced criminal record certificate to be made on the form, or one to like effect, set out in Schedule 2 to the Regulations. Regulation 4 specifies the fee for such an application as £12 save that no fee is payable when the applicant is a volunteer as defined in regulation 2.

Regulation 5 specifies the details of convictions and cautions, reprimands and warnings which appear on criminal record certificates and enhanced criminal record certificates.

Regulations 6, 7 and 8 specify the details of information drawn from lists kept under section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1999, section 218(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988 and sections 470 and 471 of the Education Act 1996 respectively, which will appear on criminal record certificates and enhanced criminal record certificates.

Regulation 9 specifies the sources of information comprising central records of convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings. Regulation 10 defines relevant police force for the purposes of section 115 of the Police Act 1997.

Regulation 11 makes provisions in relation to the taking of fingerprints from applicants where the Secretary of State requires them for the purposes of ascertaining the identity of an applicant.

Regulation 12 specifies the fees to be paid to police authorities who maintain police forces that have been requested to supply information in relation to an application for an enhanced criminal record certificate.