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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 85ZM
85ZM Meaning of conviction and spent conviction
- (1)
- For the purposes of this Part, a person shall be taken
to have been convicted of an offence if:
- (a)
- the person has been convicted, whether summarily or
on indictment, of the offence;
- (b)
- the person has been charged with, and found guilty
of, the offence but discharged without conviction; or
- (c)
- the person has not been found guilty of the offence,
but a court has taken it into account in passing
sentence on the person for another offence.
- (2)
- For the purposes of this Part, a person's conviction of
an offence is spent if:
- (a)
- the person has been granted a pardon for a reason
other than that the person was wrongly convicted of
the offence; or
- (b)
- the person was not sentenced to imprisonment for the
offence, or was not sentenced to imprisonment for the
offence for more than 30 months, and the waiting
period for the offence has ended.
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