Spent Convictions Act 2000

This Act applies to convictions for Commonwealth offences, State offences and foreign offences as well as convictions for ACT offences.

This Act applies to convictions imposed for Commonwealth offences, State offences and foreign offences with the changes necessary to enable its provisions to apply to those offences in a way that corresponds as closely as possible to the way it applies to ACT offences.

The Crimes Act 1914 (Cwlth), pt 7C deals with spent convictions. In particular, s 85ZV (1) of that Act provides, among other things, that a person is not required, in a State or Territory, to disclose to any person, for any purpose, the fact that the person has been charged with, or convicted of, a Commonwealth offence if the person’s conviction for the offence is spent under that Act. (Division 6 of that part provides exclusions.) The subsection is expressed to apply despite, among other things, any state or territory law. Under the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cwlth), s 28 a provision of a Territory enactment has no effect to the extent to which it is inconsistent with a Commonwealth law in force in the Territory.