Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Act 2018

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Reprint as at 1 December 2020

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

1	Title
2	Commencement
	Part 1 General provisions
3	Purpose of this Act
4	Interpretation
5	Historical homosexual offence defined
6	Transitional, savings, and related provisions
7	Act binds the Crown
	Part 2 Expungement of convictions
	Test for, and effects of, expungement
8	Test for expungement
9	General effects of expungement
10	Relationship with other laws
11	Duties of controlling public offices that hold criminal records
12	Effect of expungement on requests to disclose, and use of, criminal records
13	Offence to unlawfully disclose information required to be concealed
14	Offence to require or request that individual disregard expungement
	Process for making and deciding application
15	Application for expungement
16	Request to represent deceased convicted person
17	Further documents, things, or information
18	Offence to fail or refuse to comply with notice
19	Secretary decides application
20	Reconsideration of decisions
21	Evidence, independence, and process
22	Protection for person providing information
	No entitlement to compensation
23	No entitlement to compensation
	Consequential amendments
24	Amendments to Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004
	Schedule 1 Transitional, savings, and related provisions
	Schedule 2 Consequential amendments to Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004
	Reprint notes

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