Offences against electrical licensing regulations involving serious safety defects cannot be characterised as trivial for the purposes of s 45(1)(b)(i) of the Sentencing Act 1995 (WA), because the integrity of the licensing system depends upon exact compliance with prescribed standards. Where an occupation involves considerable responsibility for safety, there is a strong public interest in employers and the public being able to access the fact of convictions, which weighs against the making of spent conviction orders.
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