Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person who has access to records of convictions kept by or on behalf of a public authority must not, without lawful authority, disclose any information about a spent conviction.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) It is not an offence for an archive or library (or an authorised officer or employee of an archive or library) to make available to a member of the public, or to another archive or library, in accordance with the normal procedures of the archive or library, material that is normally available for public use and that contains information about a spent conviction.
(3) It is not an offence for a law enforcement agency (or an authorised officer or employee of a law enforcement agency) in the exercise of its functions (or of the functions of the authorised officer or employee) to make information about a spent conviction available to another law enforcement agency or to a court.