1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Terms used
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 (Sch. 2)
9. Term used: serious conviction
10. Term used: lesser conviction
11. Prescribed period, defined
PART 3 -- Effect of a conviction becoming spent
Division 1 -- Application
12. Application of PART
13. Effect of Part 3 on other laws
Division 2 -- Exceptions
14. Div. 4 does not affect certain matters
15. Bail decisions not affected by s. 25, 26 or
16. Further exceptions to Part
Division 3 -- Discrimination on ground of spent conviction
17. Terms used
18. Job applicants and employees, discrimination against
19. Commission agents, discrimination against
20. Contract workers, discrimination against
21. Organisations of workers and employers, discrimination by
22. Authorities that confer authorisations and qualifications, discrimination by
23. Employment agencies, discrimination by
24. Enforcement of this Division
Division 4 -- Other effects
25. Interpretation of written laws
26. Assessment of character under written law
27. Disclosure or acknowledgment of spent convictions
28. Unlawful access to criminal records
PART 4 -- Miscellaneous
29. Equal Opportunity Act 1984, application of
30. Spent conviction not revived after parole or early release cancelled
31. Prerogative of mercy not affected
32. Act applies to convictions incurred before commencement
33. Regulations
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