Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The
Spent Convictions Act 1988 Part 3 Division 3 applies to and in respect of
expunged convictions in the same manner as it applies to and in respect of
spent convictions and, for that purpose, a reference in that Division to a
spent conviction is to be taken to be a reference to an expunged conviction.
(2) Without limiting
the application of the provisions of the Spent Convictions Act 1988 under
subsection (1), for the purposes of those provisions —
(a) in
relation to discrimination on the ground of an expunged conviction or the
charge to which it relates —
(i)
the Minister has the powers conferred by the
Equal Opportunity Act 1984 sections 81 and 107(1) on the Minister to whom the
administration of that Act is committed; and
(ii)
the Commissioner under that Act has the functions set out
in sections 80(a), (b)(i), (c), (e) and (h), 81 and 95 of that Act;
and
(b) the
Equal Opportunity Act 1984 sections 155, 159, 160, 161, 162 and 163 apply as
if they were set out in this Act.