HC Deb 28 June 1974 vol 875 c1969

Amendments made: No. 3, in page 2, line 59, leave out from first to ' to end of line 11 on page 3 and insert: 'his or any other person's past which cannot be answered without acknowledging or referring to a spent conviction or spent convictions or any circumstances ancillary thereto. (1A) Subject to the following provisions of this section and to sections 5 and 6 below—

  1. (a) any question seeking information with respect to a person's previous convictions, offences, conduct or circumstances, put to him or to any other person, whether in proceedings to which subsection (1)(b) above applies or otherwise, shall be deemed not to relate to spent convictions or to any circumstances ancillary to spent convictions, and the answer to any such question may be framed accordingly; and
  2. (b) a person shall not be subjected to any liability or penalty, or otherwise prejudiced in law, by reason of any answer given by him, to such a question as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(2) The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as seems to him appropriate for excluding or modifying the application of either or both of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1A) above in relation to questions put in such circumstances as may be specified in the order. (3) For the purposes of'.—[Mr. Hal Miller.]

No. 4, in page 3, line 35, leave out subsection (5).—[Mr. Alexander W. Lyon.]

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