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Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
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- Act applied by 2017 anaw 2 s. 66(10)
Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 5(2AA) inserted by 2020 asp 13 sch. 5 para. 2(2)
- s. 5J(1)(ba) inserted by 2020 asp 13 sch. 5 para. 2(8)(a)
- s. 5J(1A)(1B) inserted by 2020 asp 13 sch. 5 para. 2(8)(b)
- s. 8A(2)(aa)-(ad) substituted for s. 8A(2)(a) by 2022 c. 32 Sch. 11 para. 2(a)
- s. 8B(1A)-(1E) inserted by 2011 asp 1 s. 187(2)(a)
- Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(aa) (ab) inserted by 2011 asp 1 s. 187(3)
[F19 Unauthorized disclosure of spent convictions.E+W+S
(1)In this section—
“official record” means a record kept for the purposes of its functions by any court, police force, Government department, local or other public authority in Great Britain, or a record kept, in Great Britain or elsewhere, for the purposes of any of Her Majesty’s forces, being in either case a record containing information about persons convicted of offences; and
“specified information” means information imputing that a named or otherwise identifiable [F2rehabilitated living person] [F2living protected person] has committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for any offence which is the subject of a spent conviction.
(2)Subject to the provisions of any order made under subsection (5) below, any person who, in the course of his official duties, has or at any time has had custody of or access to any official record or the information contained therein, shall be guilty of an offence if, knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that any specified information he has obtained in the course of those duties is specified information, he discloses it, otherwise than in the course of those duties, to another person.
(3)In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (2) above it shall be a defence for the [F3defendant F4...][F3accused person] to show that the disclosure was made—
(a)to the [F5rehabilitated] [F5protected] person or to another person at the express request of the [F5rehabilitated] [F5protected] person; or
(b)to a person whom he reasonably believed to be the [F6rehabilitated] [F6protected] person or to another person at the express request of a person whom he reasonably believed to be the [F6rehabilitated] [F6protected] person.
(4)Any person who obtains any specified information from any official record by means of any fraud, dishonesty or bribe shall be guilty of an offence.
(5)The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as appears to him to be appropriate for excepting the disclosure of specified information derived from an official record from the provisions of subsection (2) above in such cases or classes of case as may be specified in the order.
(6)Any person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F7level 4 on the standard scale].
(7)Any person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F8level 5 on the standard scale] or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.
[F9(8)Proceedings for an offence under subsection (2) above shall not [F10, in England and Wales,] be instituted except by or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions.]]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 62, SIF 39:1), Sch. 7 para. 24(a)(ii)
F2Words in s. 9(1) substituted (S.) (30.11.2020) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(15)(a); S.S.I. 2020/245, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)
F3Words in s. 9(3) substituted (S.) (10.3.2014) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 25 para. 17(2) (with s. 141(1)-(6)); S.I. 2014/423, art. 2(c) (with art. 3)
F4Words in s. 9(3) omitted (E.W.) (10.3.2014) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 25 para. 9(2) (with s. 141(1)-(6)); S.I. 2014/423, art. 2(c) (with art. 3)
F5Word in s. 9(3)(a) substituted (S.) (30.11.2020) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(15)(b)(i); S.S.I. 2020/245, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)
F6Word in s. 9(3)(b) substituted (S.) (30.11.2020) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(15)(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2020/245, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)
F7Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G
F8Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G
F9S. 9(8) omitted (S.) (10.3.2014) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 25 para. 17(3) (with s. 141(1)-(6)); S.I. 2014/423, art. 2(c) (with art. 3)
F10Words in s. 9(8) omitted (E.W.) (10.3.2014) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 25 para. 9(3) (with s. 141(1)-(6)); S.I. 2014/423, art. 2(c) (with art. 3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 9(8) explained by Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975 (c. 59), s. 12
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