Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

[F16(1)Section 7(2), (3) and (4) apply for the purposes of this Schedule as follows.E+W

(2)Subsection (2) (apart from paragraphs (b) and (d)) applies to the determination of any issue, and the admission or requirement of any evidence, relating to a person's previous cautions or to ancillary circumstances as it applies to matters relating to a person's previous convictions and circumstances ancillary thereto.

(3)Subsection (3) applies to evidence of a person's previous cautions and ancillary circumstances as it applies to evidence of a person's convictions and the circumstances ancillary thereto; and for this purpose subsection (3) shall have effect as if—

(a)any reference to subsection (2) or (4) of section 7 were a reference to that subsection as applied by this paragraph; and

(b)the words “or proceedings to which section 8 below applies” were omitted.

(4)Subsection (4) applies for the purpose of excluding the application of paragraph 3(1); and for that purpose subsection (4) shall have effect as if the words “(other than proceedings to which section 8 below applies)” were omitted.

(5)References in the provisions applied by this paragraph to section 4(1) are to be read as references to paragraph 3(1).]