New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT 1912 - SECT 24

24 Postponing execution of order quashing conviction on Crown's application

(1) Where an appeal to the court is upheld, and the appellant is entitled under this Act to have the conviction against the appellant quashed by order of the court, the court may, upon application on behalf of the Crown, at any time before the release of such appellant, either by the same or by a separate order, direct that the execution of the order quashing the appellant's conviction be stayed for such time (not exceeding four days) as the court thinks fit, and the court or judge thereof shall, subject to the Bail Act 2013 , thereupon make such order for the detention of the appellant or the appellant's return to any former custody as the court or judge thinks fit, for the time during which such stay has been directed.

(2) The court or a judge thereof may, subject to the Bail Act 2013 , upon application made by the Attorney-General make such order for the detention of the appellant pending the hearing of an appeal to the High Court as the court or a judge may think fit, and may at any time vary or rescind such order.