Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Terms used in this Act  
   4.      Convictions to which Act does not apply  
   5.      Act binds Crown  

   PART 2 -- Requirements for convictions to become spent  

   6.      Serious convictions  
   7.      Lesser convictions  
   8.      Convictions in other jurisdictions  
   9.      Meaning of “serious conviction”  
   10.     Meaning of “lesser conviction”  
   11.     Meaning of “prescribed period”  

   PART 3 -- Effect of a conviction becoming spent  

           Division 1 -- Application  

   12.     Application of PART 3  
   13.     Effect of Part 3 on other laws  

           Division 2 -- Exceptions  

   14.     Proceedings in courts not affected by Division 4  
   15.     Bail decisions  
   16.     Further exceptions  

           Division 3 -- Discrimination on ground of spent conviction  

   17.     Terms used in this Division  
   18.     Discrimination against job applicants and employees  
   19.     Discrimination against commission agents  
   20.     Discrimination against contract workers  
   21.     Discrimination by organisations of workers and employers  
   22.     Discrimination by authorities that confer qualifications etc.  
   23.     Discrimination by employment agencies  
   24.     Enforcement of this Division  

           Division 4 -- Other effects  

   25.     Interpretation of written laws  
   26.     Assessment of character not to have regard to spent convictions  
   27.     Disclosure or acknowledgment of spent convictions  
   28.     Unlawful access to criminal records  

   PART 4 -- Miscellaneous  

   29.     Application of certain provisions of Equal Opportunity Act 1984  
   30.     Revival of sentence after parole etc.  
   31.     Prerogative of mercy not affected  
   32.     Act applies to convictions incurred before commencement  
   33.     Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Provisions relating to application under section 6(1)  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Convictions in other jurisdictions  
           SCHEDULE 3 -- Exceptions to Part 3  
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