Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if, before or after the commencement of this section, a court martial or a Defence Force magistrate:
(a) convicts a person of a service offence (other than a Schedule 1A offence); or
(b) convicts a person of a Schedule 1A offence and imposes a punishment of imprisonment on the person.
(2) The Chief of the Defence Force, a service chief or an authorized officer may disclose the fact that a person has been convicted of the offence, and any information relating to the conviction, to an authority of the Commonwealth, or of a State or a Territory, for purposes connected with investigating, prosecuting or keeping records in relation to offences against laws of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory.
(3) For the purpose of complying with a requirement or an authorisation to disclose, for a lawful purpose, the fact that a person has been convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth that is a service offence, the disclosure must expressly refer to the offence as a service offence.
Note: Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914 exempts a person from having to disclose a spent conviction.