57D (convictions and sentences in respect of admission of guilt fines relating to offences in terms of regulations made in terms of section 27(2) of Disaster Management Act, 2002), specifically provides that ‘criminal record of a person which contain the conviction and sentence of a person who is deemed to have been convicted and sentenced by a court as contemplated in section 57(6) of this Act, in respect of a specified offence; or (b) appeared in court in terms of a summons or written notice referred to in section … is hereby expunged.”
This takes effect on the day that the sentence was imposed by the court.