New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (APPEAL AND REVIEW) ACT 2001 - SECT 49

49 Miscellaneous powers

(1) Without limiting its other powers, the Land and Environment Court may do any one or more of the following--

(a) it may specify the sitting at which the hearing of an appeal or application for leave to appeal is to be heard or continued,

(b) it may adjourn the hearing of an appeal or application for leave to appeal.

(2) In determining an appeal, the Land and Environment Court may exercise any function that the Local Court could have exercised in the original Local Court proceedings.

(3) In determining an appeal against an order referred to in section 43 (1) (a) or (b) or (1A) (a) or (b), the Land and Environment Court has the same jurisdiction as the Supreme Court with respect to such an appeal.

(4) Subject to section 70, the Land and Environment Court may make such order as to the costs to be paid by either party (including the Crown) as it thinks just.