Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 12

12 .         Application of Part 3

                This Part applies to — 

            (a)         a dismissal under — 

                  (i)         section 669(1)(a) of The Criminal Code ² ; and

                  (ii)         section 34 or 34B of the Child Welfare Act 1947   ⁴ ;

            (ab)         a conviction that under section 20 of the Offenders Community Corrections Act 1963 ³ was deemed not to be a conviction;

            (ac)         a conviction that under section 40(2) of the Child Welfare Act 1947 ⁴ was deemed not to be a conviction; and

            (b)         a charge formally made in court that a person has committed an offence where — 

                  (i)         the charge is withdrawn; or

                  (ii)         the charge is disposed of without a conviction being recorded,

                as if the dismissal or charge were a spent conviction.

        [Section 12 amended by No. 78 of 1995 s. 122; No. 10 of 1998 s. 65(1).]