South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts12—Unlawful disclosures—business activities
(1) A person is guilty
of an offence if—
(a) the
person, in the course of carrying on a business that includes or involves the
provision of information about convictions for offences, discloses information
about a spent conviction; and
(b) the
person knew, or ought reasonably have known, at the time of the disclosure,
that the information was about a spent conviction.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(2) It is a defence to
a charge for an offence against subsection (1) to prove—
(a) that
the disclosure forms part of the ongoing disclosure of the information in
materials or in a manner that cannot be reasonably altered to remove
information about the spent conviction; and
(b) that
the disclosure of the information commenced before the conviction became a
spent conviction.