Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL LAW (REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS) ACT 1986 - SECT 7

7 Section 6 not applicable in certain cases

(1) The provisions of section 6 do not apply in relation to—

(a) a report of judicial proceedings in a recognised series of law reports;

(b) a report or commentary upon judicial proceedings made in good faith for educational, scientific or professional purposes or in the course of historical research or a lecture, course or discussion given or held for any such purpose;

(c) a report or disclosure made by any person who, pursuant to any provision of law, is required to make a report that includes reference to or a disclosure of a conviction referred to in section 6 ;

(d) a disclosure made in discharge of a duty under the Public Records Act 2002 ;

(e) a disclosure made under an Act of a record kept by a court or tribunal or an official record of a recording service.

(2) The provisions of section 6 do not apply in relation to—

(a) the dissemination into, in or from Queensland by members of a police service (whether of Queensland or elsewhere) or by any other person in discharge of the person’s duties within a police department (whether of Queensland or elsewhere) of information concerning any person;

(b) the filing and recording by members of the police service or any other person in discharge of the person’s duties within the department that deals with police services of information in the possession of that police force;

(c) the use in police practice, with a view to the prevention of offences or the detection and punishment of offenders, of information in the possession of the police service.

(3) In this section—

"official record" , of a recording service, means a record made under the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 , section 4 by the recording service.