141 Transitional and consequential provision

141  Transitional and consequential provision

(1)     Section 139 applies in relation to convictions or (as the case may be) cautions before the commencement date (as well as in relation to convictions or cautions on or after that date).

(2)     The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (“the 1974 Act”) applies in relation to convictions or cautions before the commencement date as if the amendments and repeals made by section 139 had always had effect.

(3)     Where by virtue of subsection (2)—

(a)     a person would, before the commencement date, have been treated for the purposes of the 1974 Act as a rehabilitated person in respect of a conviction, or

(b)     a conviction would, before that date, have been treated for the purposes of that Act as spent,

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