Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1991 NO 103 (REPEALED) - SECT 5

    (1)         For this Act, a person shall be taken to be convicted of an offence if—

        (a)     the person is convicted, whether summarily or on indictment, of the offence; or

        (b)     the person is charged with, and found guilty of, the offence but is discharged without conviction; or

        (c)     a court, with the consent of the person, takes the offence, of which the person has not been found guilty, into account in passing sentence on the person for another offence; or

        (d)     the person absconds in connection with the offence.

    (2)         For this Act, a person's conviction of an offence shall be taken to be quashed—

        (a)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (a)—if the conviction is quashed or set aside; or

        (b)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (b)—if the finding of guilt is quashed or set aside; or

        (c)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (c)—if 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)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (d)—if, 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.

    (3)         For this Act, a person shall be taken to have been convicted of an offence in a particular State or another Territory if—

        (a)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (a)—the person was convicted of the offence in a court in that State or other Territory; or

        (b)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (b)—the person was discharged without conviction by a court in that State or other Territory; or

        (c)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (c)—the offence was taken into account by a court in that State or other Territory in passing sentence on the person for the other offence referred to in that paragraph; or

        (d)     where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (d)—the information alleging the commission of the offence by the person was laid in that State or other Territory.

    (4)         A reference in this Act, in relation to a person's conviction of an offence, to the commission of the offence is, where the person is to be taken to have been convicted of the offence by reason of subsection (1) (d), a reference to the alleged commission of the offence by the person.