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Spent convictions?

  • 12-01-2019 11:07pm
    #1
    somebaldyfela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I have three previous convictions dating back a few years. I have a conviction for possession of one ecstasy tablet and criminal damage both in 2001 and a drink driving conviction in 2006. Just wondering if these would still be on my record or would they now be spent convictions?
    Hoping someone may know!


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  • #2
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/criminal_law/spent_convictions.html


  • #3
    Shab1nion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭Shab1nion


    If you have more than one offence you can not get convictions spent


  • #4
    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    Shab1nion wrote: »
    If you have more than one offence you can not get convictions spent

    Nonsense, that's only if the multiple convictions lead to custodial sentences


  • #5
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Phileas Frog wrote: »
    Shab1nion wrote: »
    If you have more than one offence you can not get convictions spent

    Nonsense, that's only if the multiple convictions lead to custodial sentences

    You can only have one relevant conviction spent irrespective of weather it's custodial or non custodial, however that does not apply to a conviction for any of the following:-

    (a) the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015, other than section 53 of the Road Traffic Act 1961,

    (b) section 37A of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1988,

    (c) section 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8A(4) or 9 of theCriminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994.

    In such a case you can have multiple spent convictions for the above, if you have more than one conviction for other than the above then none of those convictions are considered spent.

    A person with both a possession and a criminal damage charge has no spent conviction entitlement.


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