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PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 2002 - SECT 332

Meaning of quashing a conviction of an offence

  (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.



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