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SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 28

28 .         Unlawful access to criminal records

        (1)         A person shall not, without lawful reason, obtain information about a spent conviction, or the charge to which the conviction relates, from an official criminal record.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (2)         In subsection (1) official criminal record means a record containing information about the results of criminal proceedings kept for the purposes of its functions by any police force, court, government department, local or other public authority in Western Australia.



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