Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is to be taken to be convicted of an offence if:
(a) the person is convicted of the offence, whether summarily or on indictment; or
(b) the person absconds in connection with the offence.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a person is to be taken to have been convicted of an offence in a particular State or Territory if:
(a) where paragraph ( 1)(a) applies--the person was convicted of the offence in a court in that State or Territory; or
(b) where paragraph ( 1)(b) applies--the information relating to the offence was laid in that State or Territory.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, where a person is to be taken to have been convicted of an offence in a particular State or Territory because of paragraph ( 2)(b), the person is to be taken to have been so convicted before the Supreme Court of that State or Territory.
(4) For the purposes of this Act, a person's conviction of an offence is to be taken to be quashed:
(a) where paragraph ( 1)(a) applies--if the conviction is quashed or set aside; or
(b) where paragraph ( 1)(b) applies--if, 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.
(5) A reference in this Act, in relation to a person's conviction of an offence, to the commission of the offence is, where paragraph ( 1)(b) applies, a reference to the alleged commission of the offence by the person.