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Time for appealing

Cap. 90, s. 27 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where a person convicted in the Supreme Court on indictment or information desires to appeal to the Court or to obtain the leave of the Court to appeal he shall give notice of appeal or notice of his application for leave to appeal in such manner as may be directed by appeal rules of court within twenty-one days of the date of conviction if the appeal is against conviction, or of the date of sentence if the appeal is against sentence alone. (2) Where a party to any inquiry under Immigration Act, desires to apply for leave to appeal to the Court he shall give notice of his application for leave to appeal in such manner as may be directed by rules of court within twenty-one days after receipt by him of a copy of the judge’s report. (3) In all other cases where a person entitled to appeal or to apply for leave to appeal to the Court desires to exercise that right, he shall give notice of his appeal or notice of his application for leave to appeal in such manner as may be directed by rules of court within twenty-one days of the date on which the order against which he desires to appeal was signed, entered or otherwise perfected. 23
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