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Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004

Clean slate scheme

8: Effect of further conviction on eligibility

You could also call this:

"Losing eligibility if you get another conviction"

Illustration for Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004

If you are an eligible individual under the Clean Slate scheme and you get convicted of another offence, you are no longer eligible. You can become eligible again if you complete a rehabilitation period after your sentence and you meet the other eligibility criteria under section 7(1). This means you must also follow the rules set out in the Clean Slate scheme to be eligible again.

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Part 2Clean slate scheme

8Effect of further conviction on eligibility

  1. If, at any time after becoming an eligible individual (either under section 7(1) or as a consequence of an order made by the court under section 9, section 10, or section 12), an eligible individual is convicted of an offence, he or she is no longer an eligible individual.

  2. An individual referred to in subsection (1) again becomes an eligible individual if he or she—

  3. completes a rehabilitation period beginning on the day after the date on which he or she was sentenced for, or the specified order was made in relation to, that conviction or is an individual in relation to whom an order has been made under section 9 or section 10(2); and
    1. is otherwise eligible under section 7(1) to have the clean slate scheme apply to him or her.