Spent Convictions (Amendment of Act, Schedule 3) Regulations 1994 (WA)

12 July 19941	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	3365
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SPENT CONVICTIONS ACT 1988

SPENT CONVICTIONS (AMENDMENT OF ACT, SCHEDULE 3) REGULATIONS 1994

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in Executive

Council under sections 16 (1) (b) and 33.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Spent Convictions (Amendment of

Act, Schedule 3) Regulations 1994.

Schedule 3 to the Act amended

2. Schedule 3 to the Spent Convictions Act 1988* is amended by adding the

following clause —

Exceptions as to spent convictions for certain offences in relation to prospective employees of certain organizations

3. (1) A person being considered for employment by an organization specified in the table to this subclause is excepted from the provisions of section 18 and Division 4 of Part 3 in respect of a spent conviction for an offence referred to in subclause (2).

TABLE

• Activ Foundation • Newall Inc

•	Catholic Care for	• Nulsen Haven Association
Intellectually	• Paraplegic-Quadriplegic

Handicapped Persons	Association
• Cerebral Palsy	• People with Disabilities

Association of WA Inc

• Citizen Advocacy WA • (W Phy l oIsn Home Support

• Disability Services	Group
Commission	• Pilbara Family Support
•	Multiple Sclerosis Society
of WA
• Enjel Inc	Association
• Florence Huinmerston	• Rocky Bay Inc
(Westcare) Accommodation	• Royal WA. Institute for
Services	the Blind

• Goldfields Family Support • South West Community

Association	Living Association
• Interchange Inc	• South West Family
• Kimberley Family	Support Association
Support Association	• The Richmond Fellowship
• KIRA	of WA
• Lady Lawley Cottages	• Upper Great Southern
•• Lower Great Southern	Family Support
Community	Association
Living Association	• Valued Independent
• Midlands Family Support	People
Association	• Vemvane Inc

•	Midwest Community	• WA Blue Sky Inc
Living Association	• Western Swan

• Midwest Family Support	Community Living
Association	Association
• Moffiyn Child and Family	• Workpower Inc

Care Services

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(2) The offences for the purposes of subclause (1) are —

(a) offences under the following provisions of the

Criminal Code —

(i)       Chapter XXII (offences against morality);

(ii)      Chapter XXVIII (homicide, suicide, concealment of birth);

(iii)    Chapter XXIX (offences endangering life or health);

(iv)     Chapter XXX (assaults);

(v)      Chapter XXXI (sexual offences);

(vi)     Chapter XXXIII (offences against liberty); and

(vii)    Section 344 (desertion of children);

(b) an offence against the law of a foreign country that	corresponds to an offence referred to in paragraph (a);
and
(c) an offence against the law of a jurisdiction named in	Schedule 2 that corresponds to an offence referred to
in paragraph (a).

L.* Reprinted as at 4 November 1992.3

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.

July 5 1994.