Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

CHAPTER 6 - INTERPRETING THIS ACT  

PART 6-1 - MEANING OF SOME IMPORTANT CONCEPTS  

Division 2 - Convicted and related concepts  

SECTION 332   Meaning of quashing a conviction of an offence  

332(1)    
For the purposes of this Act, a person ' s conviction of an offence is taken to be quashed if:

(a) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(a) - the conviction is quashed or set aside; or

(b) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(b) - the finding of guilt is quashed or set aside; or

(c) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(c) - either of the following events occur:

(i) the person ' s conviction of the other offence referred to in that paragraph is quashed or set aside;

(ii) the decision of the court to take the offence into account in passing sentence for that other offence is quashed or set aside; or

(d) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(d) - after the person is brought before a court in respect of the offence, the person is discharged in respect of the offence or a conviction of the person for the offence is quashed or set aside.

332(2)    
This section does not apply to a * foreign serious offence.