Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If section 189
provides that a conviction of an offence is not to be regarded as a
conviction, evidence of that conviction is not admissible in any proceedings,
other than proceedings under this Act or on indictment for the offence or for
a subsequent offence.
(2A) This section does
not prevent evidence of a conviction being received in proceedings under the
High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 .
(2) A person, not
being the person convicted, who discloses the fact of a conviction that, under
section 189, is not to be regarded as a conviction commits an offence except
if the disclosure is for the purposes of this Act or of any court of law.
[Section 190 amended: No. 17 of 2016 s. 58; No. 29
of 2020 s. 121.]