Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This Act provides a scheme to limit the effect of a person's conviction for certain offences if the person completes a period of crime-free behaviour.
(2) Under the scheme, after completion of a period of crime-free behaviour, a conviction to which the scheme applies is regarded as spent and, subject to certain exceptions, does not form part of the person's criminal history and may only be used for certain purposes.
Note See the Discrimination Act 1991 , s 7 (1) (o) for discrimination on the ground of spent conviction.
(3) This Act also deals with the effect of the quashing of a conviction and the pardoning of an offence.