Spent Convictions Act 2021

to establish a scheme for convictions to become spent automatically or on application; and

to provide for limited collection, use and disclosure of a spent conviction of a person for the purposes of administration of justice or performance of statutory functions; and

to create offences for disclosing information about a spent conviction or obtaining information about a spent conviction fraudulently or dishonestly; and

to amend the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to make a spent conviction an attribute on the basis of which discrimination is prohibited under that Act.