Regulation 95 Spent convictions of individuals

Each national enforcement authority must remove details of any conviction from the public register once the rehabilitation period for a sentence has ended in accordance with—

(a)

section 5 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974^f1 (rehabilitation periods for particular sentences) as it applies in England;

(b)

Article 3 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1974 c. 53. Section 5 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 was amended by section 139(4) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10). There are other amendments to section 5 but they are not relevant for the purposes of these Regulations.
f2: 1978 No. 1908 (N.I. 27). Article 3 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29).