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Sentencing Act 1991
115AEffect where punishment suffered for indictable offence
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115A Effect where punishment suffered for indictable offence
(1) If a person who has been convicted of an indictable offence has suffered the punishment imposed in respect of it, the punishment has the like effect and consequence as a pardon under the great seal.
(2) Subsection (1) does not limit the operation of any enactment that expressly disqualifies a person who has been convicted of an indictable offence from holding any office.
S. 115B inserted by No. 65/2011 s. 68 (as amended by No. 43/2012 s. 3(Sch. item 47.1)).