Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to be convicted of an offence if:
(a) the person is convicted, whether summarily or on indictment, of the offence; or
(b) the person is charged with, and found guilty of, the offence but is discharged without conviction; or
(c) a court, with the consent of the person, takes the offence, of which the person has not been found guilty, into account in passing sentence on the person for another offence; or
(d) the person * absconds in connection with the offence.
(2) Such a person is taken to have been convicted of the offence in the following State or Territory:
(a) if paragraph (1)(a) applies--the State or Territory in which the person was convicted;
(b) if paragraph (1)(b) applies--the State or Territory in which the person was discharged without conviction;
(c) if paragraph (1)(c) applies--the State or Territory in which the court took the offence into account in passing sentence on the person for the other offence;
(d) if paragraph (1)(d) applies--the State or Territory in which the information was laid alleging the person's commission of the offence.
(3) If paragraph (2)(d) applies to a person:
(a) the person is taken to have been convicted of the offence before the Supreme Court of that State or Territory; and
(b) the person is taken to have committed the offence.
(4) This section does not apply to a * foreign serious offence.