Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   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 3  
   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 3

           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 qualifications etc., 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 etc. cancelled  
   31.     Prerogative of mercy not affected  
   32.     Act applies to convictions incurred before commencement  
   33.     Regulations
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Provisions relating to application under section 6(1)  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Convictions in other jurisdictions  
           SCHEDULE 3 -- Exceptions to Part 3  
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