Valid from 01/10/2012
134(1)Section 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (rehabilitated persons and spent convictions) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)In subsection (1) for “subsection (2)” substitute “ subsections (2), (5) and (6) ”.
(3)After subsection (4) insert—
“(5)This Act does not apply to any disregarded conviction or caution within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 5 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
(6)Accordingly, references in this Act to a conviction or caution do not include references to any such disregarded conviction or caution.”
135E+WIn section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997 (criminal record certificates), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant matter”, after “that Act” insert “ but excluding a disregarded caution within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 5 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 ”.