Victorian Numbered Acts

SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 2021 (NO. 13 OF 2021) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to establish a scheme for convictions to become spent automatically or on application; and

        (b)     to provide for limited collection, use and disclosure of a spent conviction of a person for the purposes of administration of justice or performance of statutory functions; and

        (c)     to create offences for disclosing information about a spent conviction or obtaining information about a spent conviction fraudulently or dishonestly; and

        (d)         to amend the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to make a spent conviction an attribute on the basis of which discrimination is prohibited under that Act.