Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2022

This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.

in subsection (2), by substituting for the words

“an address” the words “a postal address or an electronic address”;

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE (AMENDMENT)

ACT 2022

by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection:

“(3)  When a notice of appeal has been lodged, the

Court appealed from shall make a signed copy of the grounds of decision in the case and cause the said copy to be served upon the appellant or his advocate—

by leaving it at the postal address of the appellant or his advocate;

by posting it by registered post addressed at the postal address of the appellant or his advocate; or

by sending it to the electronic address of the appellant or his advocate, mentioned in the notice of appeal.”;

by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

“(3a)  The signed copy of the grounds of decision which is sent by electronic means referred to in paragraph (3)(c) shall be deemed to have been served and delivered upon sending the said copy to the appellant’s or his advocate’s electronic address.”; and

in paragraph (5)(b)—

by substituting for the word “left” the word

“served”; and