Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 4

4 .         Convictions to which Act does not apply

        (1)         Sections 6 and 7 do not apply to — 

            (a)         a conviction to which section 189 of the Young Offenders Act 1994 applies;

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

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

        (2)         A conviction for which the penalty imposed by the court is or includes a sentence of life imprisonment is not capable of becoming spent under section 6 or 7.

        [Section 4 amended by No. 78 of 1995 s. 121.]