Rehabilitation of Offenders Bill 2007

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Bill 2007 would allow certain convictions to become “spent” after a rehabilitation period, provided the person completed the sentence and committed no further offence during that time. The periods proposed are five, seven or ten years, depending on the sentence, but the scheme would exclude prison terms over 30 months, sexual offences and offences against children. Once spent, convictions generally would not need to be disclosed and could not normally be used to disadvantage someone in employment, except in jobs involving children, policing, the Defence Forces and other specified roles.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the rehabilitation of offenders and for offences to become spent after a period of time

Last updated 12 April 2018