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Billy_Bullocks wrote: »

You can refuse to answer and the act states you shall not be asked, I don't think it states you can lie.

It does indeed say that you can lie. Or rather it says that "where a question seeking information with respect to a person’s previous convictions... is put to him... the question shall be treated as not relating to spent convictions... and the answer may be framed accordingly", whichis a slightly legalistic way of saying the same thing.It gives explicit permission to answer the question as if it said "any unspent convictions", even if it actually said "any convictions".

What it does NOT say (other than possibly by implication) that you must not be asked about spent convictions. It says that if an employer/insurer etc asks you about your spent convictions then you're allowed to deny having it (subject to exceptions), and that if the employer/insurer does find out about your spent conviction then they should not disadvantage you because of it. But it's silent on whether they're allowed to pose the question in the first place - or what penalty they might suffer if they do ask.