Western Australian Current 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
            
   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
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Provisions relating to application under section 6(1)  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Convictions in other jurisdictions  
           SCHEDULE 3 -- Exceptions to Part 3