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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 85ZN

Meaning of quash

    For the purposes of this Part, a person's conviction of an offence shall be taken to have been quashed:

  (a)   where the person was convicted of the offence--if the conviction has been quashed or set aside;

  (b)   where the person was found guilty of the offence, but discharged without conviction--if the finding of guilt has been quashed or set aside; or

  (c)   where the person was not found guilty of the offence, but a court has taken it into account in passing sentence on the person for another offence:

  (i)   if the person's conviction of the other offence has been quashed or set aside; or

  (ii)   if the court's decision to take the offence into account has been set aside.



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