Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 22

22 .         Discrimination by authorities that confer qualifications etc.

                It is unlawful for an authority that is empowered to confer, renew, extend, revoke or withdraw an authorisation or qualification that is needed for or facilitates the practice of a profession, the carrying on of a trade or the engaging in of an occupation to discriminate against a person on the ground of a spent conviction of the person — 

            (a)         by refusing or failing to confer, renew or extend the authorisation or qualification;

            (b)         in the terms or conditions on which it is prepared to confer the authorisation or qualification or to renew or extend the authorisation or qualification; or

            (c)         by revoking or withdrawing the authorisation or qualification or varying the terms or conditions upon which it is held.