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Certificates of Good Conduct

The Judicial Data and Criminal Records Act, which entered into force in November 2002, contains provisions concerning the issue of certificates of good conduct. The new procedure for applying for a certificate came into effect on 1 April 2004.

If you apply for a job involving confidential information or vulnerable people, for example, your employer may ask you for a certificate of good conduct. For some jobs (teacher or taxi driver, for instance) a certificate is in fact required by law.
You may only apply for a certificate for yourself. The Minister of Security and Justice decides whether to issue the certificate or not. He will issue a certificate if investigations have shown that the applicant does not have a criminal record that is relevant to the job for which the certificate has been requested. For example, a taxi driver who has been convicted several times of drunken driving, or an accountant convicted of fraud are unlikely to be issued with a certificate.

Obviously, an accountant who has been convicted of drunken driving may well be granted a certificate. In January 2007 stricter rules were imposed on the issue of certificates of good conduct to people who work with vulnerable people and who have been convicted of a sexual offence.

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