National Criminal Register

The Information Bureau of the National Criminal Register kindly informs you that candidates for youth holiday camp supervisors or instructors acting as volunteers are obliged to provide the holiday camp organiser, in accordance with Article 92p(8)(1) of the Education System Act of 7 September 1991, with information about the person from the National Criminal Register. They are exempt from the fee for issuing the certificate, as per Article 24(1a) of the National Criminal Register Act.

A person wishing to use the above exemption and obtain a hard copy certificate should refer to the following provisions in item 11 of the form “Inquiry for information about a person”: Article 24(1a) of the National Criminal Register of 24 May 2000 in conjunction with Article 92p(8)(1) of the Education System Act of 7 September 1991, and also submit a letter, drawn up by the holiday camp organiser, confirming that he/she is a candidate for a youth holiday camp supervisor or instructor acting as a volunteer. The letter will remain in the office.

The current wording of the provision of Article 162(7) of the Act of 27 July 2001 Law on the Common Courts System (Journal of Laws of 2019, item 52, as amended) introduces the principle of obtaining a certificate from the National Criminal Record regarding persons standing as lay judge candidates on a free-of-charge basis.

In order to be exempt from the obligation to pay the fee for the certificate, a lay judge candidate should reference in the request for obtaining information about a person from the National Criminal Register to a provision of law stating that the cost of the fee for issuing information from the National Criminal Register is borne by the State Treasury (Article 162(7) of the Act Law on the Common Courts System).

In order to prevent persons who are not lay judge candidates from obtaining information without paying a fee, it is reasonable to require a lay judge candidate to attach to the request a document (certificate or statement) from the entity presenting the lay judge candidate confirming the fact that the person concerned is a lay judge candidate or, in the case of a submission made by a group composed of 50 citizens, from the person first named on the list (Article 162(6) of the above Act).

Pursuant to the provision of Article 24(1) of the National Criminal Register Act of 24 May 2000, the entities listed in Article 6(1) to (9) and Article 6(11) of the Act and central authorities of the Member States of the European Union requesting information for the purposes of ongoing criminal or administrative proceedings are exempt from paying a fee for obtaining a certificate from the National Criminal Register.