Schedule 1Court of Appeal Act (2023 Revision)
Supplementary provisions
1Notice of an application for leave to refer a case to the Court under section 28 or 30 shall be given to the Court within fourteen days from the day on which the sentence, or the last of the sentences was passed.
2If the Registrar is given notice of an application to the Court under section 28 or 30, the Registrar shall —
(a)take all necessary steps for obtaining a hearing of the application; and
(b)obtain and lay before the court in proper form all documents, exhibits and any other material which appear necessary for the proper determination of the application.
3Rules of Court may enable a person, to whose sentencing such an application relates, to obtain from the registrar any documents or exhibits including copies or reproductions of documents required for the application and may authorise the registrar to make charges for them in accordance with the scales and rates fixed, from time to time, by the Government.
4The time during which a person whose case has been referred for review under section 30 is in custody pending its review and pending any reference to the Court shall be reckoned as part of the term of any sentence to which the person is for the time being subject.
5A person in custody shall not be entitled to be present —
(a)on an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions for leave to refer a case; or
(b)on any proceedings preliminary or incidental to reference, unless the Court gives that person leave to be present.
6The term of any sentence passed by the Court under section 30 shall, unless the Court otherwise directs, begin to run from the time when it would have begun to run if passed in the proceedings in relation to which the reference was made.