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| (1) An appeal under this Chapter may be lodged by presenting a petition of appeal or application for leave to appeal to the Registrar of the High Court within fourteen days from the date when the conviction, sentence or order sought to be appealed against was pronounced: |
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| (2) In computing the time within which an appeal may be preferred, the day on which the judgment or final order appealed against was pronounced shall be included, but all Sundays and public holidays shall be excluded. |
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| (3) If the time for preferring a petition of appeal expires on a day on which the office of the court is closed the appeal shall be deemed to be in time if such petition be preferred on the first day next thereafter on which such office is open. |
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| (4) The petition of appeal shall be distinctly written on good and suitable paper, signed by the appellant or his attorney-at-law and dated and shall contain the following particulars-
| | (a) the sessions of the High Court where the conviction, sentence or order appealed against was pronounced, | | |
| | (b) the number of the case, | | |
| | (c) the names and addresses of the appellant and the respondent, | | |
| | (d) the address to the Court of Appeal, | | |
| | (e) the date of pronouncement of the judgment or order as the case may be sought to be appealed against and the nature of such pronouncement, | | |
| | (f) a plain and concise statement of the grounds of appeal, | | |
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| (5) Stamps to the value of five rupees shall be affixed by such appellant but where the appeal is by the Attorney-General or from a sentence of death a stamp fee is not required. |
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