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6c. 53 (5) For the purposes of this section and section 7 below any of the following are circumstances ancillary to a conviction, that is to say—
 * (a) the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction;
 * (b) the conduct constituting that offence or those offences; and
 * (c) any process or proceedings preliminary to that conviction, any sentence imposed in respect of that conviction, any proceedings (whether by way of appeal or otherwise) for reviewing that conviction or any such sentence, and anything done in pursuance of or undergone in compliance with any such sentence.

(6) For the purposes of this section and section 7 below “proceedings before a judicial authority” includes, in addition to proceedings before any of the ordinary courts of law, proceedings before any tribunal, body or person having power—
 * (a) by virtue of any enactment, law, custom or practice:
 * (b) under the rules governing any association, institution, profession, occupation or employment; or
 * (c) under any provision of an agreement providing for arbitration with respect to questions arising thereunder;

to determine any question affecting the rights, privileges, obligations or liabilities of any person, or to receive evidence affecting the determination of any such question.

5—(1) The sentences excluded from rehabilitation under this Act are—
 * (a) a sentence of imprisonment for life;
 * (b) a sentence of imprisonment or corrective training for a term exceeding thirty months;
 * (c) a sentence of preventive detention; and
 * (d) a sentence of detention during Her Majesty's pleasure or for life, or for a term exceeding thirty months, passed under section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or under section 57 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (young offenders convicted of grave crimes);

and any other sentence is a sentence subject to rehabilitation under this Act.

(2) For the purposes of this Act—
 * (a) the rehabilitation period applicable to a sentence specified in the first column of Table A below is the period specified in the second column of that Table in relation to that sentence, or, where the sentence was imposed on a person who was under seventeen years of age at the date of his conviction, half that period; and