Posted By Michael Miller
Surely if he is banned he won't be able to produce a license! or have I got the question wrong? There is a criminal disclosure act but I am not sure it will cover drink driving unless a serious injury took place as a result.

Posted By Al Penman
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 allows offenders non disclosure of convictions after a certain time period when they become 'spent'. The time period is graded depending on the conviction.

I'm not 100% on the time periods before a conviction is 'spent' but I believe if a custodial life sentence has been served it is never 'spent' and will have to be declared at all times when asked i.e job application forms.

A £25 fine for example is 'spent' after 5 years and then the offender doesn't have to declare it on application form unless the employment is exempt sections of the Act ie working with children.

So anyone caught drink driving will have to declare a conviction until such time as it becomes 'spent'. If the person doesn't declare it on the application form and it becomes apparent that they have an 'unspent' conviction then I suppose it depends on your organisations HR to decide if the person has lied on the application form and received the job by deception.

I hope that has helped in some way to answering your question, not sure though how you would find out about 'spent' convictions though.

Al