jace - the chapter and verse is here:
Department for Transport - Criminal Records Checks
curmudgeon - Many thanks for agreeing - however, w.r.t.
'
All mine does is say that I'm a man of no convictions!'
Should that perhaps more accurately be described as:
'
All mine does is say that I'm a man of no convictions within the UK legal system !'
Imho this whole Disclosure Scotland thing is nothing more than a money making joke - one designed to net the goons at Disclosure Scotland £14 per application - wherein it has little or no real effect on improving airside security.
...... now just where did I put that SAM7 which my Afghan friends shipped to me in bits ? Ah, there it is, under my airside pass !
<-- the emoticon for irony.