New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (APPEAL AND REVIEW) ACT 2001 - SECT 11

11 Appeals as of right

(1) Any person who has been convicted or sentenced by a Local Court may appeal to the District Court against the conviction or sentence.

(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a conviction if the person was convicted in the person’s absence or following the person’s plea of guilty.

(2) An appeal must be made:

(a) within 28 days after sentence is imposed, or

(b) if an application for annulment of the conviction or sentence has been made under Part 2 within that 28-day period, within 28 days after the Part 2 application is disposed of under that Part,

but (in the case of an appeal against a conviction) may not be made before sentence is imposed.