Crimes Act 1914
Subject to Division 6 , but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where, under section 85ZR , a person is, in particular circumstances or for a particular purpose, to be taken never to have been convicted of an offence:
(a) the person is not required, in those circumstances or for that purpose, to disclose the fact that the person was charged with, or convicted of, the offence;
(b) it is lawful for the person to claim, in those circumstances, or for that purpose, on oath or otherwise, that he or she was not charged with, or convicted of, the offence;
(c) in the case of a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence - the person is not otherwise subject to any legal duty or disability to which he or she would not have been subject if he or she had not been convicted; and
(d) anyone else who knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, that section 85ZR applies to the person in relation to the offence shall not:
(i) without the person's consent, disclose the fact that the person was charged with, or convicted of, the offence to any other person, or to a Commonwealth authority or State authority, where it is lawful for the first-mentioned person not to disclose it to that other person or that authority; or
(ii) in those circumstances, or for that purpose, take account of the fact that the person was charged with, or convicted of, the offence.
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Subsection (1) does not affect the generality of section 85ZR .
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