Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill

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Hon Andrew Little

Government Bill

274—2

	Commentary
	Key
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 ~~departments and agencies~~ 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 ~~unlawfully~~ information required to be concealed
13A	Offence to require or request that individual disregard expungement
	Process for making and deciding application
14	Application for expungement
15	Request to represent deceased convicted person
16	Further documents, things, or information
17	Offence to fail or refuse to comply with notice
18	Secretary decides application
19	Reconsideration of decisions
20	Evidence, independence, and process
21	Protection for person providing information
	No entitlement to compensation
22	No entitlement to compensation
	Consequential amendments
23	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
	Legislative history

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