Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988 - SECT 26

26 .         Assessment of character not to have regard to spent convictions

        (1)         Where a written law of this State permits or allows a person to consider, take into account, or determine the good character, fitness, propriety or other like attribute of a person for the purposes of that written law, the person shall not in doing so have regard to a spent conviction or the charge to which the conviction relates.

        (2)         Failure to comply with subsection (1) is not an offence, but this subsection does not affect any other remedy that may be invoked in respect of the failure.