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| (1) When an appeal against an acquittal by a High Court is preferred, the court may issue a warrant directing that the accused be arrested and brought before it and may commit him to prison pending the determination of the appeal or release him on bail |
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| (2) When an appeal against a conviction by a High Court is preferred, the High Court may subject to subjection (3) release the appellant on bail pending the determination of his appeal An appellant who is not released on bail shall, pending the determination of the appeal be treated in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under the Prisons Ordinance |
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| (3) Where the accused is sentenced to death, execution shall be stayed and he shall be kept on remand in prison pending the determination of the appeal |
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| (4) The time during which an appellant pending the determination of his appeal is released on bail and (subject to any directions which the court to which the appeal is preferred may give to the contrary on any appeal) the time during which the appellant if m custody is specially treated as an appellant under this section, shall not count as part of any term of imprisonment under his sentence , and, any imprisonment of the appellant whether it is under the sentence imposed by the High Court or the court to which the appeal was preferred shall subject to the directions or order of the court, to which the appeal was preferred be deemed to be resumed or to begin to run as the case requires, if the appellant is in custody, as from the day on which the appeal is determined and, if he is not in custody, as from the day on which he is received into prison under the sentence |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts