The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment No. 2) Order 1986
Section 4(1) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that a rehabilitated person is to be treated in law as a person who has not been convicted of any spent convictions. Subsection (2) of that section makes provision for questions concerning a person’s previous convictions to be treated as not relating to spent convictions and subsection (3)(b) further provides that a spent conviction or any failure to disclose a spent conviction shall not be a proper ground for dismissing or excluding a person from any office, profession, occupation or employment or for prejudicing him in any way in any occupation or employment.