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Right of Appeal against conviction on indictment
Cap. 90, s. 23 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) A person convicted in the Supreme Court on indictment or on information filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions may appeal under this Part to the Court,
(a) against his conviction on any ground of appeal which involves a question of law alone;
(b) with the leave of the Court or upon the certificate of the judge who tried him that it is a fit case for appeal against his conviction on any ground of appeal which involves a question of fact alone, or a question of mixed law and fact, or any other ground which appears to the Court or judge to be a sufficient
(c) with the leave of the Court against the sentence passed on his conviction unless the sentence is one fixed by law.
(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) (c), “sentence” includes–
(i) any recommendation of the Supreme Court as to the making of an expulsion order in the case of the person convicted; and
(ii) any recommendation of the Supreme Court as to the making of a deportation order or a restriction order or a security order in conjunction with either of these orders, in the case of a convicted person.
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Amended by: 1 of 1969
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