Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL LAW (REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS) ACT 1986 - SECT 6

6 Non-disclosure of convictions upon expiration of rehabilitation period

Where the rehabilitation period has expired in relation to a conviction recorded against any person and the conviction has not been revived in respect of the person, neither that person nor any other person, if the person knows that the rehabilitation period has expired, shall disclose the conviction unless—

(a) being the person against whom the conviction is recorded—the person wishes to disclose the conviction; or

(b) the person makes the disclosure under the authority of a permit granted under section 10 in accordance with the conditions (if any) of the permit; or

(c) the person makes the disclosure in circumstances that constitute an exception to the operation of section 9 (1) or that are expressed by section 9 (2) to be a case to which the provisions of section 9 (1) do not apply.