Crimes Act 1914
Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, if a person's conviction of a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence is spent, the person is not required:
(a) in any State or Territory - to disclose to any person, for any purpose, the fact that the person has been charged with, or convicted of, the offence; or
(b) in a foreign country - to disclose to any Commonwealth authority or State authority in that country, for any purpose, the fact that the person has been charged with, or convicted of, the offence. 85ZV(2) [State or foreign conviction spent]
Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any Territory law, if a person's conviction of a State offence or a foreign offence is spent, the person is not required:
(a) in any Territory - to disclose to any person, for any purpose, the fact that the person has been charged with, or convicted of, the offence; or
(b) in any State or foreign country - to disclose to any Commonwealth authority in that State or country, for any purpose, the fact that the person has been charged with, or convicted of, the offence. 85ZV(3) [Lawful nondisclosure under State Law]
Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any Territory law, where:
(a) a person was convicted of a State offence;
(b) subsection (2) does not apply to the person in relation to the offence; and
(c) under a law in force in that State, being a law dealing with the disclosure or taking into account of spent convictions (however described in that law) it is lawful for the person, in particular circumstances or for a particular purpose, not to disclose the fact that the person was charged with, or convicted of, the offence;
the person is not required, in corresponding circumstances or for a corresponding purpose:
(d) in a Territory - to disclose the fact that the person was charged with, or convicted of, the offence; or
(e) in a State or foreign country - to disclose that fact to any Commonwealth authority in that State or country.
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