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Section 21 - Criminal Records Act 1991 - Act does not authorise contravention of other laws | Zoe

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Criminal Records Act 1991

21Act does not authorise contravention of other laws

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Nothing in this Act authorises a person to disclose a conviction or to take a conviction into account if to do so would contravene any other law.

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