Well no, that is, if it were down to me section 140 would not have been put on to the Statute Book. So I cannot explain why the Government has done this.Can you explain to me the logical and sensible reason behind this decision that migrants for immigration purposes should never have spent convictions.
However like it or not, it is on the Statute Book, albeit yet to be put into action. I still feel that the analogy to teachers is still a reasonable point to make, because it illustrates that needing to disclose spent convictions is not an automatic bar to success of the application being made.
The impression I get is that some feel that the need to disclose spent convictions is an automatic bar to success of the application. It is that fear that I wish to dispel.