Commentary on Sections Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments Paragraph 53 - Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c. 53)
964.If a person has become a rehabilitated person in accordance with the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, limitations are placed upon evidence that can be admitted and questions which that person can be required to answer, in relation to spent convictions. An exception is made to this general principle so that evidence relating to spent convictions can be admitted or required in proceedings relating to the marriage of a minor. Paragraph 53 amends section 7(2)(c) of the Act so that it applies equally in relation to the formation of a civil partnership by a minor.