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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-order-1975/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-order-1975/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1023",
  "legislation_title": "The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-order-1975",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Neither section 4(1) of, nor paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2 to, the Act shall\n(a) apply in relation to any proceedings specified in Schedule 3 to this Order;\n(b) apply in relation to any proceedings specified in paragraph (2) below to the extent that there falls to be determined therein any issue relating to a person’s spent conviction ... or to circumstances ancillary thereto;\n(c) prevent, in any proceedings specified in paragraph (2) below, the admission or requirement of any evidence relating to a person’s spent conviction ... or to circumstances ancillary thereto.\n(2) The proceedings referred to in paragraph (1) above are any proceedings with respect to a decision or proposed decision of the kind specified in article 4(1)(d) to (n).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (S.) (29.3.2003) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/231), arts. 1(1), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 5 substituted (1.1.1987) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/2268), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(1) substituted (18.12.2008) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3259), arts. 1(1), 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 5 omitted (22.7.2007) by virtue of The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2149), arts. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 5(2) substituted (E.W.) (30.11.2001) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3816), arts. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(2) substituted (10.3.2015) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/317), arts. 1(2), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1023/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:07:27.513200+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}