Date:

07/17/2006

Criminal Appeal Rules (Amendment No 3) 2006

under the

Supreme Court Act 1970

The Supreme Court Rule Committee made the following rules of court under the Supreme Court Act 1970 on 17 July 2006.

Steven Jupp
Secretary of the Rule Committee

Explanatory note
The object of these Rules is to revise a rule that deals with the certificate of conviction that is issued by a court of trial. Such a certificate will be required to include a note as to the convicted person’s rights of appeal with respect to the conviction or, if an appeal or notice of intention to appeal has been filed, as to the fact of it’s having been filed.


Rule 1 Criminal Appeal Rules (Amendment No 3) 2006

Criminal Appeal Rules (Amendment No 3) 2006
under the Supreme Court Act 1970

1 Name of Rules
These Rules are the Criminal Appeal Rules (Amendment No 3) 2006.

2 Amendment of Criminal Appeal Rules
The Criminal Appeal Rules are amended as set out in Schedule 1.


Schedule 1 Amendment
(Rule 2)
Rule 19
Omit the rule. Insert instead:

19 Certificates of conviction
(1) A certificate of conviction issued by a Court of Trial must include a note:
(a) to the effect that an appeal against the conviction may be made within 3 months after the conviction or within such extended time as the Court may allow, or
(b) if an appeal or notice of intention to appeal against the conviction has been filed, to the effect that such an appeal or notice of intention has been filed.

(2) Failure to include such a note in a certificate of conviction does not invalidate the certificate.

(3) This rule does not apply to a conviction that has been quashed.