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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 85ZT

Quashed convictions

  (1)   Subject to Division   6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where a person's conviction of a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence has been quashed, 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.

  (2)   Subject to Division   6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any Territory law, where a person's conviction of a State offence or a foreign offence has been quashed, 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.


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