Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c. 53)

Introductory Text
1. Protected persons and spent convictions.
2. Rehabilitation of persons dealt with in service disciplinary proceedings.
3. Special provision with respect to certain disposals by children’s hearings under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
4. Effect of becoming a protected person.
5.Rehabilitation periods for particular sentences.
5A.Table A – disclosure periods: ordinary cases
5B.Table B – disclosure periods: service disciplinary sentences
5C.Disclosure period: caution for good behaviour
5D.Disclosure period: particular court orders
5E.Disclosure period: adjournment or deferral
5F.Disclosure period for certain mental health orders
5G.Disclosure period: compulsion orders
5H.Disclosure period: orders relating to juvenile offenders
5I.Disclosure period: service disciplinary orders
5J.Sentences to which no disclosure period applies
6.The disclosure period applicable to a conviction.
7.Limitations on rehabilitation under this Act, etc.
8. Defamation actions.
8A.Protection afforded to spent cautions
8AA.Protection afforded to spent alternatives to prosecution
8B.Protection afforded to spent alternatives to prosecution: Scotland
8C.Modification of section 8B and schedule 3: Scotland
9. Unauthorized disclosure of spent convictions.
9A.Unauthorised disclosure of spent cautions
9B.Unauthorised disclosure of spent alternatives to prosecution: Scotland
10. Orders.
10A.Order-making powers: Scottish Ministers
11. Citation, commencement and extent.
1. Schedule 1
  Section 6(4): service disciplinary convictions
2. SCHEDULE 2
  Protection for spent cautions
  1. Preliminary
    1. 1.(1) For the purposes of this Schedule a caution shall...
    2. 2.(1) In this Schedule “ ancillary circumstances ”, in relation...
  2. Protection relating to spent cautions and ancillary circumstances
3. SCHEDULE 3
  PROTECTION FOR SPENT ALTERNATIVES TO PROSECUTION: SCOTLAND
  1. Preliminary
    1. 1.(1) For the purposes of this Act, an alternative to...
    2. 2.(1) In this Schedule, “ ancillary circumstances ”, in relation...
  2. Protection for spent alternatives to prosecution and ancillary circumstances