The court fined him a total of $400 and made a spent conviction order.

In the United Kingdom the term "spent conviction" is used.

An exempted question is a valid request for a person to reveal their full criminal history, including spent convictions.

As you may be aware, a spent conviction will remain on the PNC until a subject is 100 years old.

I feel it should show all unspent convictions and spent convictions, but now longer than 8 years after the conviction was deemed spent.

For example, criminal convictions must be disclosed when applying to enter the United States; spent convictions are not excluded.

The 'Relevant Rehabilitation Periods' for spent convictions are stupidly long.

Additionally, for certain employment occupations (e.g. education or child services), a "full disclosure" check is required, and spent convictions are still visible.

I am not barred from working with vulnerable groups so why you showing my minor and VERY spent convictions to prospective employers?

There are also a number of proceedings before a "judicial authority" (widely defined) that are excluded from the Act, and where spent convictions can be disclosed.

Section 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (rehabilitated persons and spent convictions) is amended as follows.

Spent Convictions Act 1988 (WA)

I believe that it should show unspent convictions, plus spent convictions for a period not exceeding 5 years from the date the conviction is deemed spent.

Spent Convictions Act 2000 (ACT)

While the RO becomes a spent conviction at the end of the order, maximum 12 months, the CO is spent only after 30 months.

Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act 1992 (NT)

If details of a spent conviction are made public by others with malice, the publisher may be subject to libel damages despite the fact that what is said is true.

Masten pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charge and was fined $750 and ordered to pay costs of $110 and received a spent conviction.

The OAIC has a range of responsibilities under other laws, including laws relating to data matching, eHealth, spent convictions and tax file numbers.

Read guidance on avoiding discrimination against candidates with spent convictions on the Local Government Employers (LGE) website - Opens in a new window.

However, media barrister Hugh Tomlinson QC is of the opinion that "in practice, the law of libel provides no sanction against the publication of spent convictions".

Usually a job applicant has no legal obligation to reveal spent convictions and it is illegal for an employer to ask whether an applicant has any spent convictions.

However, there are certain areas of employment that are exempt from this rule, under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions 1975) Order, for which employers may ask about spent convictions.

Applicants who are successful in reaching the interview stage of the recruitment process will be asked to declare details of any criminal convictions, including spent convictions and cautions, to allow basic security checks to be completed.

In summer 2008, the Information Tribunal ruled that this is incompatible with the Data Protection Act and that people with past, spent convictions or cautions for minor offences should have their police records deleted.