Chapter 7 of 13 · Sentences and outcomes · Spent conviction calculator

When is my conviction spent?

Checked 15 Oct 2026the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016.

Under the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016, a District Court sentence of a fine, a bond, a suspended sentence, community service or imprisonment of 12 months or less becomes spent 7 years after its effective date, subject to the one-conviction rule and the carve-outs for minor motoring and public order matters. Enter the conviction and the sentence and see the date, or why there is none.

Your conviction

What was the sentence, and when?

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Date of convictionThe date the judge imposed the sentence.The sentenceThe offenceOther convictions on your recordCount every conviction in any court, not cautions or paid fixed charges.

The date is the Act applied to what you entered. The tool does not read your Garda record, cannot tell whether an offence is on the vetting schedule, and does not say what a foreign visa or border question requires: those answers must be truthful whatever the spent status here.