The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2012
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 provides for there to be a police and crime commissoner for each police area in England and Wales outside London. Section 66(3)(c) of that Act means that a person is disqualified from being elected as, or being, a police and crime commissioner if the person has been convicted of an imprisonable offence. Article 3 amends the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (“the 1975 Order”) to permit questions to be asked about spent convictions in order to establish whether a person is disqualified from being elected as or being a police and crime commissioner, to ensure that any obligation on a (or a potential) police and crime commissioner to disclose convictions extends to spent convictions and to allow spent convictions to be grounds for disqualification from office as a police commissioner.