Victorian Consolidated Regulations

SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2008 - SECT 2.14.

Fine paid to be retained pending appeal

2.14. Fine paid to be retained pending appeal



(1) If a person has been convicted and sentenced to pay a fine and in default
of payment sentenced to imprisonment, the person authorised to receive the
fine shall retain it until determination of any related appeal.



(2) A person who has paid a fine in accordance with a sentence shall, if the
appeal is successful be entitled, subject to any order of the Court of Appeal,
to the return of the fine paid.

(3) A person who remains in custody in default of payment of a fine shall be
taken to be a person sentenced to imprisonment for the purposes of the Act and
this Order.