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The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025

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95.  Each national enforcement authority must remove details of any conviction from the public register once the rehabilitation period for a sentence has ended in accordance with—

(a)section 5 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(1) (rehabilitation periods for particular sentences) as it applies in England;

(b)Article 3 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(2).

(1)

1974 c. 53. Section 5 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 was amended by section 139(4) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10). There are other amendments to section 5 but they are not relevant for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1978 No. 1908 (N.I. 27). Article 3 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29).

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