(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person's conviction of an offence is taken to be quashed if:
(a) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(a)--the conviction is quashed or set aside; or
(b) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(b)--the finding of guilt is quashed or set aside; or
(c) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(c)--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) if the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence because of paragraph 331(1)(d)--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.
(2) This section does not apply to a * foreign serious offence.