Registration of Criminals Act 1949 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2A · Spent Criminal Records
7B. Criminal record of Singapore registrable crime may become spent
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Subject to section 7C, all records in the register of any individual convicted within Singapore of any registrable crime shall be capable of becoming spent in accordance with this Part, whether the conviction is before, on or after 17 October 2005.
register
“register” means the register of criminals maintained in accordance with section 4;
The record in the register of an individual’s conviction within Singapore for a registrable crime becomes spent on the expiration of the crime‑free period applicable to the individual, unless he or she is disqualified under section 7C.
crime
“crime” means any offence included for the time being in the First or Second Schedule;
A record of an individual’s conviction that is spent in accordance with this section is not revived by the subsequent conviction of the individual for any offence after the crime‑free period.
In this section —
“crime-free period” means a period of not less than 5 consecutive years starting from the relevant date applicable to an individual, during which the individual —
has not been convicted of a registrable crime;
has not been unlawfully at large in relation to any registrable crime;
has not been detained or subject to police supervision under section 30(1) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955; and
has not been subject to a supervision order or admitted to an approved institution under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 or admitted to an approved centre under the Intoxicating Substances Act 1987;
“relevant date”, in relation to an individual, means —
where the sentence of the individual does not include a term of imprisonment and is no longer subject to appeal, the date on which the sentence was passed;
where the sentence of the individual includes a term of imprisonment and is no longer subject to appeal, the date of his or her release from legal custody; or
where a sentence of imprisonment has been wholly remitted or commuted to or substituted with a sentence other than a term of imprisonment, the date of that remission, commutation or substituted sentence, as the case may be.